client 20 without user interaction additionally the criteria can indicate that a user will need to access the sleep study data in the near future for example when the sleep study is assigned to the scoring technician and has the u2018 scoring u2019 state the scoring technician will need to access the sleep study data in the near future rather than have the scoring technician manually initiate the download of the sleep study data and have to wait for the download to complete client 20 can initiate the download of the sleep study data while the scoring technician is working on other matters or is out of the office thus the sleep study data can be pre downloaded to the client 20 and ready for the scoring technician when he is ready to access the sleep study data fig3 is a view of a user interface for setting automatic sleep study download criteria in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosed concept user interface includes an automatic download activation box 60 automatic download activation box 60 when activated enables client 20 to execute the method of fig2 a predetermined time entry box 62 allows a user to enter the predetermined time client 20 waits before querying server 32 selection buttons 64 allow a user to select.