Abstract: An adapter receives tuples of streaming data from a streaming data source. The adapter extracts selected attributes from the tuples of streaming data, and writes the selected attributes to a buffer associated with a visualization engine for displaying the selected attributes in a visualization screen. The selected attributes are written to the buffer according to a predefined format supported by the visualization engine. The adapter receives interactive user input to change the selected attributes to be extracted from the tuples and written to the buffer.

Abstract: Methods for storing and managing hard copy documents and their modified versions are disclosed. Specifically, a method of storing a document and one or more related images of alterations made to the document, comprising capturing an image of the document; storing the image of the document in memory; capturing an image of an altered version of the document; comparing the image of the document to the image of the altered version of the document; extracting the differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; creating an image of the extracted differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; and storing the image of the extracted differences in memory.