Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070135944
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The present invention provides a method and system to monitor the statuses of devices that operate in a network environment such as a physical facility from a central location. In this system, there is a repository of the status of all designated device attributes of a device including the past state history of the device. Each device on the system will transmit a state change notification to the central location each time the status of the device changes. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 20040015619 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - Patent Appl. Publ. within the ... - A1 |
| Patentee Name | Brown, William A. ; et al. |
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| URL | http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi... |
| Filing Date | January 22, 2004 |
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An apparatus for providing a summary for at least one process of a system, the apparatus comprising:
means for accepting input data descriptive of the at least one process and for grouping as a block at least one variable of the input data with at least one attribute for the variable; and display means for reading the block and producing output to display the summary for the at least one process.
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