Patent ID: 8131842
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying summary information about a plurality of client computer systems, each client computer system having at least one type, comprising: responsive to a document or a copy of the document, said document or copy corresponding to the type of the client computer system and role assigned to the client computer system, the role indicating at least one application the client computer system runs, providing, at multiple times, from each of the plurality of client computer systems to a server, a set of, at each such time, a plurality of recently current data values of status indicators of at least one application running on said client computer system and a plurality of recently current data values of status indicators of system resources of said client computer system that are capable of affecting status of the at least one application; for each of at least some of the plurality of data values of the status indicators of the at least one application and the plurality of data values of status indicators of system resources, identifying a class of said data value of the status indicator from a plurality of classes of said status indicators responsive to at least one threshold in the document, copy of the document, or a different copy of the document, and said data value of the status indicator; providing by the server for display, for each of the plurality of client computer systems, at least some of the plurality of the data values of the plurality of status indicators of the at least one application and at least some of the plurality of the data values of the status indicators of the plurality of system resources responsive to the class of said data value of the status indicator identified, linked to a summary, responsive to the classes of the plurality of client computer systems having the same type.