Patent ID: 9229626
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: collecting status information for a plurality of certificates of a secure communication protocol within a certificate management tool that manages the plurality of certificates; causing a display of the status information in a management window of a graphical user interface (GUI) of the certificate management tool; receiving, via the GUI, a user selection of a subset of certificates from the plurality of certificates within the status information displayed in the management window; causing a display of a notification window in the GUI layered over at least a portion of the management window, the notification window comprising a plurality of recipient fields and a plurality of expiration notice fields; automatically populating the plurality of recipient fields of the notification window with recipient data corresponding to the subset of certificates selected in the management window; receiving input, via the plurality of expiration notice fields in the notification window, changing an expiration parameter for sending a notification to recipients in the plurality of recipient fields for the subset of certificates selected in the management window, wherein changing the expiration parameter comprises changing a time frame for sending the notification to another time frame; updating, by a processor, corresponding expiration parameters in the status information in the management window displayed in a layer beneath the notification window for the selected subset of certificates based on the input changing the expiration parameter; and causing the notification window in the GUI to be removed in response to user interaction with the notification window.