Patent ID: 9497084
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for monitoring network devices, said apparatus comprising: a device information maintaining part that maintains, for each of the network devices, device information identifying the network device and device properties and status of the network device; a user interface part including a filter control window displaying a plurality of filter blocks in a specific sequence, each filter block comprising a plurality of user-selectable filter criteria items; and a processing part that processes the device information based on selected ones of the filter criteria items, and causes the user interface part to display a device list that includes only specific ones of the network devices matching the selected ones of the filter criteria items, wherein when one or more filter criteria items in a first filter block is selected, the processing part modifies all of the filter blocks appearing after the first filter block in the specific sequence to generate modified filter blocks including only filter criteria items applicable to network devices that satisfy at least one of said one or more selected filter criteria items in the first filter block, and, in said modified filter blocks appearing after the first filter block in the specific sequence, filter criteria items applicable to network devices that do not satisfy any of said one or more selected filter criteria items in the first filter block are not displayed by the user interface part, and wherein the user interface part permits user operation to remove a specified filter block amongst the plurality of filter blocks from the filter control window via a drag-and-drop operation, and the processing part, in response to the user operation to remove the specified filter block from the filter control window,