Patent ID: 8483091

Claim:
One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method for presenting to a plurality of presentation components status information of a communications network comprised of a plurality of network elements, the method comprising: populating a data structure with items of status information associated with a plurality of the network elements, the items of status information having a first state that is any one of a plurality of states; providing status flags stored within the data structure that are associated with the items of status information, wherein a status flag is set to indicate that update data are available, wherein update data are available when an associated item of status information has changed from the first state to any other of the plurality of states; determining a set of update data based on the status flags, wherein the set of update data corresponds to items of status information within the data structure that have changed from the first state to any other of the plurality of states; retrieving the set of update data at a central source; resetting, within the data structure, the status flags associated with the set of update data, wherein after being reset the status flags indicate there are no available update data; determining respective portions of the update data to be sent to one or more of the presentation components; and respectively communicating to the one or more of the presentation components the respective portions of the update data.