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Patent US7703029 - Grid browser component - Google Patents
A graphical user interface (GUI) includes a graph with vectors and nodes for visualizing a computer grid, the nodes representing computers running grid managers and the vectors representing relations between pairs of grid managers, each of the relations defining a first grid manager to be superior to...http://www.google.com/patents/US7703029?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7703029 - Grid browser component
Publication number US7703029 B2
Application number US 10/712,886
Also published as EP1649368A1, US20050027813, WO2005015395A1
Publication number 10712886, 712886, US 7703029 B2, US 7703029B2, US-B2-7703029, US7703029 B2, US7703029B2
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U.S. Classification 715/764, 709/226
International Classification G06F15/173, G06F3/048, G06F15/16, G06F9/50, G06F9/46, G05B19/18, G06F19/00