Patent ID: 8060353

Claim:
A method of remotely monitoring a flow cytometer, comprising the steps of: a. interrogating a plurality of particles with said flow cytometer, wherein said plurality of particles are differentially responsive based upon at least one particle characteristic; b. producing a signal with said flow cytometer which varies based upon change in at least one particle characteristic of the plurality of analyzed particles; c. analyzing said signal with a first computer operatively coupled to said flow cytometer to continuously convert said signal into a viewable data representation of change in said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles; d. serving with said first computer in serial order a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation of change in said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles to a second computer without generating an amount of lag in analyzing said signal from said at least one flow cytometer; e. processing said served plurality of time bound data representation files with an image processor in said second computer to correspondingly generate a first plurality of reduced byte data representation files; f. processing said served plurality of time bound data representation files with said image processor to generate a second plurality of reduced byte data representation files each one having fewer bytes than the corresponding one of said first plurality of reduced byte data representation files; g. serving with said second computer a requested portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files to a third computer; and h. displaying each one of said portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files in serial order with said third computer to provide a viewable reduced byte data representation of change in said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles.