Patent ID: 7810041

Claim:
A method of provisioning a device through a command interface, the method comprising: generating a command interface display comprising a command line interface format, wherein the display is configured to graphically represent a plurality of configurable outputs in both a graphical user interface (GUI) format and a command line interface format; sending a request to the device, wherein the request comprises a raw command text form; receiving a feedback signal from the device, wherein the feedback signal corresponds to the request, and wherein the feedback signal is used to generate a user defined output from the plurality of outputs corresponding to the feedback signal; and concurrently displaying in the command interface display the user defined output in a combined command line interface and GUI display format, wherein a command line interface text is associated with the raw text command sent to the device for provisioning the device and wherein the GUI is associated with the raw text command in the display wherein the output corresponding to the feedback signal is displayed in a graphical object format with the command interface.