Patent ID: 6384842
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method involving graphical representations of relative and absolute locations of system components, comprising:providing a number of graphical representations of system components; displaying, using a display semen of a computer system, at least a first plurality of said number of graphical representations, said first plurality to be used in defining a first system of components and including at least a first graphical representation related to a first component of said first system; arranging said first plurality utilizing said computer system on said display screen, said arranging step including associating, using said display screen, each of said first plurality in a location relative to each of the other of said first plurality, said arranging step further including identifying, using said display screen, an absolute location of each of said first plurality, said relative and absolute locations of said first plurality on said display screen corresponding to actual relative and absolute physical locations of system components of said first system in a room housing said first system; updating said fist graphical representation, based on a change related to said first component of said first system, after said arranging step; and said first plurality includes a second graphical representation related to a second component of said first system and said providing step includes storing in memory said first graphical representation having an object form for illustrating said first component and storing in memory said second graphical representation having an object form and text for illustrating said second component.