Patent ID: 7254779

Claim:
A customizable presentation environment of a service broker system for interactive monitoring and control of data to and from computers and/or Internet enabled devices of a client/server safety system over the Internet, the environment comprising: an interactive presentation of data from a client-side of the system having a plurality of object placeholders, each for holding a presentable object or a presentable reference to an object, wherein the presentable object is a digital image obtained from a camera at a remote location in response to a sensor sensing a change at the remote location; each placeholder having a resource for selecting the presentable object or reference held therein and a resource for selecting the placeholder; and a data store on the server-side of the system for storing the presentable objects from the client-side, the presentable objects being linked to indicate the relationship between the objects, each object having a pointer that refers to each of the presentable objects adjacent thereto, wherein the viewable arrangement of the presentable objects displayed on a presentable environment over the Internet is based on the manner in which the presentable objects are linked; wherein the arrangement of the presentable objects, references, or both within the placeholders corresponds at least in part to the manner in which the presented objects and references are linked on the client-side of the system.