Patent ID: 8648910

Claim:
A method for remotely monitoring a plurality of controllers and associated assay testing systems, each controller being connected to a respective assay testing system and having a processor that is adapted to generate a display image representing a status of at least one of the controller and the respective assay testing system, the method comprising: providing a monitor unit, connected to each of the plurality of the controllers, the monitor unit having a processing unit, a display device, and a user interface; receiving a plurality of images from one or more of the plurality of controllers at the monitor unit in real-time or pseudo-real-time; displaying a variable plurality of display images corresponding to each of the plurality of images on the display device in real-time or pseudo-real-time in accordance with a first mode or a second mode; concurrently displaying each image in the plurality of display images on the display device in the first mode where the number of display images in the plurality of display images is not greater than a threshold number; concurrently displaying each image of a subset of the plurality of display images on the display device in the second mode where the number of display images in the plurality of display images is greater than the threshold number; and changing the images of the plurality of display images being concurrently displayed in the second mode in accordance with a sequence, via a scrolling or streaming motion, such that each image in the plurality of display images is at least periodically visible on the display device in both the first mode and the second mode.