Patent ID: 9396289
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of identifying a unique object nested within a hierarchy of objects in a computing system, the method, comprising: identifying the unique object by its class and instance in a syntax readable by the computing system; identifying at least one parent object by its class and instance in the syntax, further including identifying all parent objects in the hierarchy of objects; and defining a relationship between the unique object and the parent object in the syntax, in Which defining a relationship includes defining all relationships between all parent objects in the hierarchy of objects and the unique object, wherein an alert can be issued for the unique object regardless of how nested the unique object is within the hierarchy of objects; issuing an alert for the unique object, wherein all parent objects sharing a relationship with the unique object receive the alert; displaying, on a same view in a first pane, the hierarchy of objects and the alert for the unique object; displaying, on the same view as the hierarchy of objects but separately in a second pane, a display pane which displays the top level managed objects and any alert within the hierarchy of those objects; and wherein displaying the alert comprises overlaying a first shape specifying a type of system that corresponds to the unique object, a second shape specifying an alert state for the unique object based, at least in part, on the issued alert, and a third shape specifying a network connection state between the unique object and a network to display a single shape that provides the information specified by the first, second, and third shapes by displaying at least a portion of each of the first, second, and third shapes within the single shape.