Patent ID: 8806372
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying network information, comprising: displaying, by an application program, a window having a first toolbar with first web-browsing controls; displaying, by the application program, a first panel within the window, the first panel including a topology of a network including a plurality of network entities, the topology displayed within the first panel as a collapsible folder structure; displaying, by the application program, a second panel within the window, the second panel including a selected sub-plurality of the network entities displayed within the first panel, the selected sub-plurality displayed within the second panel such that each network entity of the selected sub-plurality is displayed as an object interconnected to other objects representing other network entities of the selected sub-plurality by lines; displaying, by an embedded web browsing program separate from the application program, a third panel within the window, wherein the third panel includes a second toolbar with second web-browsing controls and a text box to receive text to independently navigate to a network entity corresponding to the received text from the third panel; detecting, by the application program, a selection of a given object of the objects within the second panel; communicating a reference to the network entity represented by the given object from the application program to the embedded web browsing program; retrieving, by the embedded web browsing program, browser-compatible data from the network entity represented by the given object; and rendering the browser-compatible data, by the embedded web browsing program, within the third panel.