Patent ID: 7636576

Claim:
A method for determining and representing at least one potential physical location of a wireless network device, comprising: inputting, from a user, a number of known access points for which distance representations are to be generated; generating a distance representation corresponding to each of said number of known access points, wherein each said distance representation represents an estimated distance from a corresponding one of said known access points to said wireless network device, wherein said distance representation comprises a substantially circular ring surrounding a graphical representation of each of said number of known access points; generating a representation of said wireless network device within a first display region of a graphical user interface, wherein said first display region of said graphical user interface is external to a second display region of said graphical user interface, and wherein said second display region of said graphical user interface includes a representation of the physical environment in which said wireless communication network is deployed combining the distance representation with the representation in the second display region of the physical environment in which said access points are deployed based on known locations of the access points in the physical environment; and visually displaying the combined distance representation and physical environment representation, whereby the potential physical location of the wireless network device is provided in relation to features in the physical environment.