Patent ID: 7954070

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a processor; a display coupled to the processor; a plurality of mother buttons simultaneously depicted in a column on the display where each mother button represents a geographical area of a facility; first software within the processor that monitors activation of the plurality of mother buttons and that displays one or more daughter buttons on the display directly adjacent the column of mother buttons upon activation of any of the mother buttons where each of the daughter buttons represent a portion of the geographic area of the respective mother button; second software within the processor that monitors each of the displayed daughter buttons and that simultaneously depicts a physical layout of the portion of the geographic layout represented by the daughter button in a location of the display separate from the daughter button when ever the daughter button is activated where the physical layout includes a plan view of a floor plan of at least one building; an activated fire sensor, security sensor, and environmental sensor displayed in conjunction with at least one mother button associated with the activated sensors of the plurality of mother buttons and also displayed in conjunction with at least one daughter button associated with the activated sensors of the one or more daughter buttons, wherein the activated sensors are displayed in conjunction with the mother and daughter button in the absence of activation of the mother or daughter button and in the absence of the physical layout of the mother or daughter button and wherein the displayed sensors provide a guide to locating and displaying a physical layout with activated sensors; and enlargement software to provide a zoom function for a portion associated with an activated sensor, where the enlargement software provides a closed displayable member which defines a region being enlarged, and the closed displayable member being movable thereby altering the region being enlarged.