Patent ID: 11880557
Assignee: SERVICENOW, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a remote network management platform that manages a managed network, wherein the managed network contains a plurality of computing devices that are capable of executing a plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of computing devices and the plurality of applications are configured to provide a service on behalf of the managed network;
a database, disposed within the remote network management platform, containing a definition of a graph that represents the plurality of computing devices, the plurality of applications, and relationships therebetween that facilitate providing the service; and
a computing device, disposed within the remote network management platform, wherein the computing device is configured to generate and provide for display, on a client device, a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the GUI comprises:
a panel region containing an active copy of the graph that was read from the database;
a first selectable control that, when selected by way of the GUI, causes the computing device to create an editable, private copy of the graph and causes the computing device to replace the active copy of the graph in the panel region with the editable, private copy of the graph, wherein the editable, private copy of the graph is editable by way of the GUI and edits made to the editable, private copy of the graph do not affect the active copy of the graph;
a second selectable control that, when selected by way of the GUI, causes the computing device to update the active copy of the graph with the editable, private copy of the graph, save the active copy of the graph as updated to the database, and display the active copy of the graph as updated in the panel region; and
a linear GUI element comprising one or more selectable moments in time along the linear GUI element, wherein each of the one or more selectable moments in time corresponds to a historical copy of the graph at a respective moment in time, and wherein a particular selectable moment in time of the one or more selectable moments in time corresponds to the active copy of the graph being updated with the editable, private copy of the graph, wherein the first selectable control, the second selectable control, and the linear GUI element remain on the GUI during the active copy of the graph being replaced, updated, or both, with the editable, private copy of the graph.