Patent ID: 7523189
Filing Date: 2009-04-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of illustrating user-defined blocks of networking addresses, comprising: accessing definitional information of a block of networking addresses, the definitional information comprising a user-defined start address, a user-defined mask size, and one or more attributes for the networking addresses of the block; and rendering, based on the user-defined start address and the user-defined mask size, a display of the block of networking addresses in a map depicting an associated address space, wherein the display provides a first visual indicator for networking addresses having a first value of a first attribute and a second visual indicator for networking addresses having a second value of the first attribute, and wherein the map depicting the associated address space comprises a grid space representing the associated address space and at least one rectangle is rendered within the grid space to represent the block of networking addresses with the at least one rectangle being provided with the first visual indicator.