Patent ID: 7870276
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: requesting, from a network-analysis application executed by a processor device in a computer, version information from a version of a network-management application; receiving the requested version information; based on the received version information, selecting version-dependent interface-implementation software; and integrating the selected version-dependent interface-implementation software with a version-independent interface-facade for the network-analysis application to produce an interface between the network-analysis application and the version of the network-management application; wherein requesting version information comprises: obtaining version independent communication software; via the version independent communication software, opening a first communication channel between the network-analysis application and the network-management application; and obtaining the version information from the network-management application via communications over the first communication channel; wherein integrating the selected version-dependent interface-implementation software with the version-independent interface-facade includes: utilizing the version-dependent interface-implementation software to create a second communication link between the network-analysis application and the network-management application, the second communication link directly coupling the version-dependent interface-implementation software and the network-management application, the version-independent interface-facade coupling the network-analysis application to the version-dependent interface-implementation software.