Patent 7941262 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is a method for storing process signals of a plant or technical installation. A compression method is adapted for a current operating state of the plant is applied to the set of process signals in accordance with the current operating state of the plant and a compressed process signal set which is determined during the application of the compression method is stored.