Patent ID: 8386593

Claim:
A computerized method of modeling a communication network having a plurality of network devices, the method comprising: in a first computer process, generating an interactive map file specifying a plurality of network elements associated with the plurality of network devices and including configuration information obtained from each of the plurality of network devices via a network interface, the configuration information logically divided into a plurality of data layers; in a second computer process, mapping each data layer to one of a plurality of display resolutions, wherein the mapping specifies a minimum display resolution for each of the data layers; in a third computer process, receiving, via a graphical user interface, first user input specifying a first display resolution; in a fourth computer process, selecting, based on the first display resolution and the mapping, a first set of network elements and a first set of configuration information from the interactive network map file, wherein the first set of configuration information includes only configuration information associated with one or more data layers having a minimum display resolution less than or equal to the first display resolution; and in a fifth computer process, providing, via the graphical user interface, a first screen including the first set of network elements and the first set of configuration information for display on a user terminal.