Patent ID: 7043277

Claim:
A method for providing automatically populated display regions showing representations of access point devices and wireless client station devices in a graphical user interface, comprising: discovering at least one access point device in a wireless communication network; discovering at least one wireless client station device in said wireless communication network; generating a physical space display region, wherein said physical space display region includes a graphical representation of a physical space in which said wireless communication network is deployed; generating an access point display region visually external to said physical space display region; generating a wireless client station display region visually external to said physical space display region; generating, within said access point display region, at least one graphical access point representation corresponding to said at least one access point device discovered in said wireless communication network; and generating, within said wireless client station display region, at least one graphical wireless client station representation corresponding to said at least one wireless client station device discovered in said wireless communication network.