Patent ID: 7457262

Claim:
A memory for storing wireless network status information for access by an application program being executed on a wireless network management system, said wireless network management system operative to gather status information from a plurality of wireless access points, comprising: a hierarchical network model data structure stored in said memory, said hierarchical network model data structure including status information used by said application program and comprising: a map of a network environment; a graphical boundary encompassing a region within the map, and wherein the network management application is operative to modulate an attribute of the graphical boundary to indicate the status of a plurality of access points located within the region encompassed by the graphical boundary; a campus node corresponding to a geographic region; a building node, wherein the building node is a child of the campus node; and a floor node, wherein the floor node is a child of the building node, and wherein the floor node contains an area map, wherein the area map is associated with an image depicting a physical area within the geographic region, and includes information specifying the location of at least one access point within the physical location.