Patent 7979380 was granted and assigned to Applied Materials on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Data of at least one of past values and present values of a system is consolidated from a plurality of sources. Virtual data of future values of the system is generated by applying the acquired data to a predictive model. Additional acquired data is received. The virtual data is dynamically updated by applying the additional acquired data to the predictive model.