Patent ID: 8396966
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of creating visual representations of farms that enables securely connecting the farms, the method comprising: creating, performed by a computer system, a visual representation of a first farm and a visual representation of a second farm; creating, performed by the computer system, a visual representation of a secure connection by associating a first administrator trust relationship, that is specified by a first administrator of the first farm, with a first end of the visual representation of the secure connection and associating a second administrator trust relationship, that is specified by a second administrator of the second farm, with a second end of the visual representation of the secure connection; and determining, performed by the computer system, whether to associate the visual representations of the first and second farms respectively with the first and second ends of the visual representation of the secure connection based on the first and second administrator trust relationships.