Patent ID: 8880368

Claim:
A system configured to index data based on at least one characteristic of a plurality of waveforms associated with an electric power distribution system, comprising: a processor in communication with a bus; a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in communication with the bus, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising: an index module configured to generate a first index based on at least one characteristic of a plurality of waveforms, the index module configured to: divide each of the plurality of waveforms into a first plurality of temporal segments; determine at least one index value representative of the characteristic for each of the first plurality of temporal segments in each of the plurality of waveforms; associate the determined index value of each of the first plurality of temporal segments in each of the plurality of waveforms with a time stamp configured to identify at least one time in the plurality of waveforms based on the determined index value; and store the time stamp and the determined index value for each of the first plurality of temporal segments in the first index.