Patent ID: 7577716

Claim:
A port information display system implemented in a networking infrastructure comprising an administrative workstation and a plurality of network devices, the administrative workstation comprising: a network monitoring module for obtaining information on ports of the network devices; a database for storing information on the ports of the network devices, wherein the information on each of the ports comprises a port speed, a traffic volume, and a duplex status; a plurality of port information pages, each of the port information pages corresponding to a respective one of the network devices and comprising a current event space for displaying event information on one or more ports of the respective network device; and a port information display module for computing a ratio of traffic volume for each port based on a current traffic volume and a port speed, displaying a traffic volume status for the port based on the ratio of traffic volume and displaying a duplex status of the port, determining whether the information on the ports comprises one or more events, and displaying event information corresponding to the one or more events in real time.