Patent ID: 8643669

Claim:
A measurement and testing system comprising, in combination: a measurement assembly having at least one measurement device, the at least one measurement device configured to sense one or more measured quantities and output one or more signals that are representative of the one or more measured quantities; at least one visual display device having an output screen, the visual display device configured to display measurement and testing data on the output screen so that it is viewable by a user of the system; and a data acquisition and processing device operatively coupled to the at least one measurement device of the measurement assembly and the visual display device, the data acquisition and processing device configured to receive the one or more signals that are representative of the one or more measured quantities and to convert the one or more signals into output data, the data acquisition and processing device further configured to generate a timeline bar on the output screen of the visual display device, the timeline bar including one or more date icons for accessing the output data, the data acquisition and processing device additionally configured to assign the output data to a selected one of the one or more date icons in accordance with the date on which the output data was generated, wherein the output data is arranged in a plurality of sessions, output data acquired during the performance of a successive series of tests being arranged in a single session of the plurality of sessions, a first of the plurality of sessions containing output data acquired during the performance of one or more initial tests on a particular day, a second of the plurality of sessions containing output data acquired during the performance of one or more subsequent tests on the particular day, and wherein the data acquisition and processing device is further configured to assign the first and the second of the plurality of sessions to a single date icon of the one or more date icons.