Patent ID: 8566476

Claim:
A method of analyzing data related to an event comprising: (a) providing an interface to a user on a central computer; (b) contacting a plurality of memory locations coupled to the central computer at a first time; (c) copying data from the plurality of memory locations to the central computer; (d) converting the data to a uniform format; (e) providing the user access to the data through the interface; (f) contacting the plurality of memory locations at a second time, comparing the data on the plurality of memory locations to the data on the central computer, and updating the display of the data to the user if data stored on the plurality of memory locations has changed more than a predetermined amount, the predetermined amount being a specific user-defined value; (g) determining what has changed in the data stored on the plurality of memory locations; and (h) conducting a timeline analysis to determine how the central computer has changed over time, the timeline analysis operable to exclude or include data based on a time period, wherein only stored files of a file type requested by the user are able to be copied to the central computer; wherein the display is updated using a syndication feed; wherein the syndication feed is in Atom syndication format.