Patent ID: 7769840

Claim:
Computer-readable media having a set of components embodied thereon that make up a network-management system, the set of components comprising: a first database embodied on the computer-readable media and having a first interface for receiving status information of a plurality of distinctly located network elements from a client in order to maintain a record of the status information of said plurality of distinctly located network elements, and storing said record, wherein the distinctly located network elements include a base transceiver station (BTS), and wherein the status information describes a functional status of at least one of the distinctly located network elements, the functional status comprising the distinctly located network element being operational, non-operational, or experiencing one or more failures; a second database having a second interface adapted to enable a user to access said record to obtain the status information for a plurality of instances, and storing geospatial information that is associated with said plurality of distinctly located network elements, wherein said plurality of instances occur at evenly spaced time intervals, and wherein the second database receives the status information for said plurality of instances from said first database; and a geographical viewer that accesses the status information and said geospatial information for said plurality of instances to create a graphical animation by sequentially displaying an indication of the functional status of at least one of the distinctly located network elements based on the status information for each instance in said plurality of instances, wherein said geospatial information informs said graphical animation.