Patent ID: 8754892
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A system for graphically displaying attributes associated with virtual images, the information processing system comprising: a memory; a processor communicatively coupled to the memory; and a virtual image visualization manager communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, the virtual image visualization manager being configured to perform a method comprising: analyzing a set of virtual image information associated with a plurality of virtual images, wherein a virtual image in the plurality of virtual images comprises software utilized by a virtual machine that provides a virtualized computing environment; identifying, based on the set of virtual image information, a set of attributes associated with each virtual image in a plurality of virtual images; identifying, based on the set of attributes, at least one base virtual image and at least one set of child virtual images in the plurality of virtual images, wherein each of the child virtual images were one of directly and indirectly created from a set of content within the base virtual image; generating, based on identifying at least one base virtual image and at least one set of child virtual images in the plurality of virtual images, at least one graph comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes represents one virtual image in the plurality of virtual images, and wherein the plurality of nodes at least comprises a node representing the base virtual image and a node representing each of the set of child virtual images; and graphically displaying each node with at least one visual indicator, wherein the at least one visual indicator represents at least one attribute in the set of attributes associated with the virtual image represented by the node.