Patent ID: 7916690
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising gathering wireless network status information from a plurality of wireless access points; maintaining, in a database, a network model data structure, said network model data structure including the wireless network status information, wherein the network model data structure comprises a map of a physical region and location information identifying locations of the plurality of wireless access points within the physical region; constructing a graphical user interface showing status information for one or more of the plurality of wireless access points, wherein the graphical user interface comprises at least a portion of the map of the physical region and a graphical boundary overlaid on the map defining a sub-region of the physical region; and identifying, based on the location information of the hierarchical network data model, one or more of the plurality of wireless access points within the sub-region defined by the graphical boundary; accessing the wireless network status information in the database to determine a status associated with the identified wireless access points; and modulating an attribute of the graphical boundary to indicate the status of one or more of the identified wireless access points located within the sub-region defined by the graphical boundary.