摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus (22) that processes time series, event and/or activity data of a process (28) according to a data structure. The data structure defines one or more activities that frame the time series, event and/or activity data. Each activity and each event has one or more attributes. Each attribute has a value. At least one of the attributes defines an interval of the activity by start and end times. Another attribute includes a time varying parameter that represents the time series data. Another attribute defines a time stamp of an event. The time varying parameter is linked to a device that produces the time series data when the process is run. The time series, event and/or activity data is collected (126, 128, 134) and processed (126, 132, 128, 134) according to the data structure for storage in and/or retrieval (136, 146, 166, 176) from a memory (26, 38). A relationship between data of one or more activities and the time series, event and/or activity data is processed according to the data structure to retrieve the time series, event and/or activity data from the memory.</p> |