Patent ID: 7047495

Claim:
A method for developing a device management application to manage a remote device, comprising: providing a graphical programming language environment to develop source code for a command-set aware user interface, the source code to be used to generate a user interface to execute at the remote device to configure a configuration parameter of the remote device according to a configuration command of the command set; providing a graphical programming language environment to develop source code for a command-set unaware graphical user interface (GUI) of the device management application, the command-set unaware GUI to be executed remotely from the remote device; linking the source code for the command-set aware user interface in the source code for the command-set unaware GUI to provide a graphical component in the command-set unaware GUI associated with the configuration command; and building the source code for the command-set unaware GUI with the linked source code for the command-set aware user interface to result in the device management application having the command-set unaware GUI with the command-set aware user interface running beneath the GUI, both the GUI and the command-set aware user interface executing remotely from the remote device, with the GUI having the graphical component to provide access to the associated configuration command.