发明授权
- 专利标题: Methods and apparatus for displaying network data
- 专利标题(中): 显示网络数据的方法和装置
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申请号: US11394651申请日: 2006-03-31
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公开(公告)号: US07681130B1公开(公告)日: 2010-03-16
- 发明人: James E. Lavallee , Alexander Dubrovsky , Francois Gauvin , Freda Weinbrecht
- 申请人: James E. Lavallee , Alexander Dubrovsky , Francois Gauvin , Freda Weinbrecht
- 申请人地址: US MA Hopkinton
- 专利权人: EMC Corporation
- 当前专利权人: EMC Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US MA Hopkinton
- 代理机构: Chapin IP Law, LLC
- 主分类号: G06F3/00
- IPC分类号: G06F3/00 ; G06F15/177
摘要:
A method for displaying graphically interconnected network fabrics on a graphical user interface. The method disclosed herein is a view manager that identifies fabrics (e.g., storage area networks) in a network system and then displays graphical representations of the fabrics within a graphical user interface. In this manner, the fabric representations are displayed in respective regions of the graphical user interface such that the pixels of each fabric representation do not overlap. Graphical interconnections are displayed between network fabrics to represent the relationship and connectivity between the fabrics. Additionally, the view manager displays the physical and virtual components or resources (e.g., host computers, switch devices, storage devices) that make up the network fabrics as graphical objects within the fabric representations. In order to show the relationship and connectivity between the resource objects, the view manager also displays graphical interconnections that flow between the resources.
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