APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TOPOLOGY NAVIGATION AND CHANGE AWARENESS

An apparatus and method are described for displaying a topological graph that allows a user to navigate through a history of previous topology displays to increase the user's understanding and awareness of the state of the topology. In a preferred embodiment, a topology display mechanism receiv...

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Main Authors ERWIN ANTHONY WAYNE, PECINOVSKY CARL CLAIR, VANCE MICHAEL, MOSSING TIMOTHY CHARLES, WOOD BRIAN OWEN, EAGEN STEPHEN TROY
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 22.11.2007
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
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Summary:An apparatus and method are described for displaying a topological graph that allows a user to navigate through a history of previous topology displays to increase the user's understanding and awareness of the state of the topology. In a preferred embodiment, a topology display mechanism receives state changes to a topology of a computer network and stores a sequence of graphs that reflect the changes that are made to the topology. The topology display mechanism also allows the user to step through the sequence of stored topology graphs using "video" type controls to change the display of the topology graphs. In other embodiments, the topology display mechanism displays the changes in the topology as a sequence of graphs that form an animation to give the user a graphical visualization of the changes from one topology graph in the sequence to the next.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20060383564