System and computer-implemented method for improving data storage and analysis

A system for improving the storing of data and for calculating data characteristics on a time base from a set of data, the system comprising:

• an electronic memory element configured to contain—
• a concentric ring buffer having a succession of representative ring buffers, with each succeeding representative ring buffer being divided into a plurality of segments and reflecting an increasingly long time period and with a decreasing level of precision,
• wherein the concentric ring buffer has a fixed total memory size based on the number of representative ring buffers and the number of segments in each representative ring buffer;
• an electronic processing element configured to—
• beginning with a base representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers, populate each segment of a particular representative ring buffer in a first-in-first-out manner with a value calculated for the data characteristic from the set of data for a particular time period and with a particular precision,
• when the plurality of segments of the particular representative ring buffer are fully populated and another value is calculated for the data characteristic, transferring an oldest value for the data characteristic to a next representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers which has a next longest time period and the next lowest level of precision, except that if there is no next representative ring buffer, then the oldest value is delete, and
• accessing and communicating any value calculated for the data characteristic from any segment of any representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers at the request of a user;
• a plurality of additional electronic memory elements and electronic processing elements, with each additional electronic memory element and the electronic processing element being associated with an additional concentric ring buffer having an additional succession of representative ring buffers which is identically configured to the succession of representative ring buffers but stores a different value calculated for the data characteristic from the different set of data;
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• a consolidated concentric ring buffer having a consolidated succession of representative ring buffers which stores aggregate values calculated from the values from the succession of representative ring buffer and the different values from each additional succession of representative ring buffers,
• wherein each aggregate value is calculated without accessing the set of data associated with the succession of representative ring buffers or the different set of data associated with each additional succession of representative ring buffers.

A computer-implemented method for improving the functioning of a computer for improving the storing of data and for calculating data characteristics on a particular base, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• configuring an electronic memory element to contain a succession of representative ring buffers, with each succeeding representative ring buffer being divided into a plurality of segments and reflecting an increasingly long unit of the particular base and with a decreasing level of precision, wherein the succession of representative ring buffers has a fixed total memory size based on the number of representative ring buffers and the number of segments in each representative ring buffer;
• beginning with a base representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers, populating by an electronic processing element each segment of a particular representative ring buffer in a first-in-first-out manner with a value calculated for the data characteristic from the set of data for a particular length of unit of the particular base and with a particular precision;
• when the plurality of segments of the particular representative ring buffer are fully populated and another value is calculated for the data characteristic, transferring by the electronic processing element an oldest value for the data characteristic to a next representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers which has a next longest unit of the particular base and the next lowest level of precision, except that if there is no next representative ring buffer, then the oldest value is deleted;
• accessing and communicating by the electronic processing element any value calculated for the data characteristic from any segment of any representative ring buffer in the succession of representative ring buffers at the request of a user;
• configuring in a plurality of additional electronic memory elements and populating with a plurality of additional electronic processing elements a plurality of additional successions of representative ring buffers which are identically configured to the succession of representative ring buffers but each of which stores a different value calculated for the data characteristic from a different set of data;
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• creating a consolidated succession of representative ring buffers which stores aggregate values calculated from the values from the succession of representative ring buffers and the different values from each additional succession of representative ring buffers,
• wherein each aggregate value is calculated without accessing the set of data associated with the succession of representative ring buffers or the different set of data associated with each additional succession of representative ring buffers.