Patent ID: 7475350

Claim:
A method to layout topology objects in a stateless environment, comprising: determining a relative position of a click event in an image on a client computer running in a stateless environment, the image being a single image and not made up of multiple different objects that may be recognized, selected or manipulated; generating a URL, wherein the URL includes location parameters corresponding to the relative position of the click event in the image; submitting the URL to a server; determining actual graphical coordinates of the click event in the image in response to the location parameters in the URL; locating at least one object in the image corresponding to the actual graphical coordinates in response to the click event; distinguishing the at least one object from any other objects in the image in response to the click event being a select type click event; generating a new image with the at least one object being distinguished; displaying a context menu in response to the click event being a preset type click event; determining a distance and direction to a mouse point from the actual graphical coordinates of the click event in response to a move option being selected in the context menu; moving any objects associated with the click event to new coordinates corresponding to the distance and direction to the mouse point from the actual coordinates of the click event; and generating a new image with any moved objects in a new location corresponding to the new coordinates.