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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2000
Joel A. Robert, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Virginia J. Jee, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Xiaowei Weng, Katy, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A technique for centralized processing of oilfield or waterfield engineering data for design and analysis from distributed locations is disclosed. In one aspect, the invention includes a method comprising: acquiring a plurality of oilfield or waterfield data; establishing a communications link between a client computing device to a server computing device; inputting data from the client computing device to the server computing device; processing the data at the server computing device; and communicating the results to the client computing device. In a second aspect, the invention includes a computing system, comprising: a client computing device; a server computing device interconnected with the client computing device; and an analysis tool resident on the server. The analysis tool includes a calculation engine capable of analyzing the data entered from the client computing device; and a plurality of program utilities for use by the calculation engine in analyzing the data.