Patent ID: 7930649

Claim:
A method for managing and viewing information associated with entities of a context type of properties of a computer network among a plurality of display views on a single display, the entities of the context type of the computer network comprising elements of the computer network, the method comprising the steps of: selecting an entity of a context type associated with a first display view on the single display; wherein the first context type corresponds to information regarding the properties of the computer network; receiving, in a view context manager communicatively coupled to the display views, information from the selected entity on the single display on the first computer; wherein the view context manager maintains a list of source parameters and entities of the context types of the properties of the computer network; determining in the view context manager at least one second display view, displayable on the single display, associated with the selected entity; and excluding all of the entities associated with the view corresponding to the selected entity from being displayed on the at least one second display view; enabling a subsequent selection of an entity of a context type associated with the at least one second display view; receiving, in the view context manager communicatively coupled to the display views, information from the subsequently selected entity on the at least one second display on the first computer; wherein the view context manager maintains a list of source parameters and entities of the context types of the properties of the computer network; determining in the view context manager at least one other display view, displayable on the single display, associated with the subsequently selected entity of the selected second display view; and excluding all of the entities associated with the view corresponding to the subsequently selected entity of the second display view from being displayed on the other display views.