Patent ID: 7805695

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of presenting a designed system, said method comprising: a computer displaying, with a display device, a respective one of a plurality of design graphical representations for each of a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entity instances within the designed system, said plurality of design entity instances including a particular design entity instance containing a latch, wherein said particular design entity instance is represented by a particular design graphical representation and wherein the plurality of design graphical representations is displayed in hierarchical arrangement with at least one of the plurality of design graphical representations contained within another of the plurality of design graphical representations; the computer identifying, within a configuration database associated with the designed system, a configuration entity instance associated with said particular design entity, wherein said configuration entity instance has a plurality of different settings that each differs from but reflects a respective one of multiple values of the latch; with the display device, the computer presenting, in association with the particular design graphical representation corresponding to the particular design entity instance, a configuration graphical representation of said configuration entity instance; and with the display device, the computer presenting a current setting of said configuration entity instance concurrently with the configuration graphical representation.