US 7,010,728 B2Granted

Data file search by example

AssigneeTektronix, Inc.

InventorsSusan C. Adam, Curtis L. Smith, Raymond E. Wolf, Madhusudan Devineni

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Abstract

A method of generating reports for data in the form of a multiplicity of data files in an accessible data storage medium uses a user interface to specify a desired report and a sample data file name, the data file names having a variable portion and a non-variable portion. A search algorithm searches the accessible data storage medium for all related data files having the same non-variable portion in their data file names, and logically groups the data files according to the variable portion of their data file names. The related data files are processed according to specified parameters, such as thresholds and limits, and a display is provided of the analysis results, highlighting significant data. The report results with linked data may be stored on an intranet site in an appropriate format to be accessible via a web page using a conventional web browser.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of generating a report from a multiplicity of data files in an accessible data storage medium, each data file having a unique data file name with a variable portion and a non-variable portion, comprising the steps of:

inputting a sample data file name having a sample variable portion and a sample non-variable portion via a user interface;
searching for the data files from the accessible data storage medium having the non-variable portion in the unique data file names equivalent to the sample non-variable portion to generate a set of related data file names;
displaying the set of related data file names in a correlated format according to the variable portion of the unique data file names corresponding to the sample variable portion;
analyzing data linked to the set of related data file names according to specified parameters;
and
displaying summary results from the analyzing step for the set of related data file names via the user interface as the report.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.