Patent ID: 8046440

Claim:
A method for configuring a plurality of electronic resources accessible in an electronic network, characterized by the steps of: receiving a plurality of user-interface fragments at a portal server sent from said plurality of electronic resources, wherein each of said plurality of user-interface fragments comprises a description of a user interface for respective one of said plurality of electronic resources including markup code usable to administer said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources and includes data for a visual representation of configuration data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, and data for a visual representation of control data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, said visual representation of said control data for initiating changes to said configuration data, wherein said changes are to be executed at said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources itself; providing a user interface to an end user by aggregating said plurality of user interface fragments within a portal page at said portal server and sending said portal page to a Web browser associated with said end user; and receiving at said portal server user control data entered by said end user through said Web browser via said plurality of user-interface fragments within said portal page, said user control data for configuring respective ones of said plurality of electronic resources.