Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080098332
Filing Date: October 24, 2006
Inventors: David C.P. LaFrance-Linden, Howard S. Rifkin
Assignee: HP
Current U.S. Classification: 715, 715/846000
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
A method to display information regarding an arrangement of nodes coupled by a communications network, wherein the nodes are associated with corresponding characteristics, the method further comprising:
defining plural groups of the nodes based on the characteristics associated with the nodes; and
displaying group icons to represent the respective groups of nodes.
#219US Patent 6952208 Method for displaying supersets of node groups in a network
Applies to Claims 1
Patent/Application # 6952208
Description
A method of displaying nodes within a network topology. Using a processor coupled to a display screen, the method involves forming a first layer of a multi-layer representation wherein at least two nodes are represented separately; and grouping the nodes of the first layer into group nodes to form a second layer in the multi-layer representation.
