Patent Document ID: 9485132
Application ID: 14272854
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of presenting a network architecture, comprising: identifying two or more network devices for interconnection analysis; collecting information describing communications paths between two or more network devices; converting the collected information into a markup language format; generating, from the markup language format, a listing of the network devices and a listing of connections therebetween as a set of one or more records, each of the one or more records describing (i) a single point-to-point connection from a first network device to a second network device, (ii) a network device make and model associated with the single point-to-point connection, (iii) a network device port associated with the single point-to-point connection, (iv) a network device media type associated with the single point-to-point connection, (v) a media access control (MAC) address of the network device port associated with the single point-to-point connection; instantiating, based on the markup language format of the listing of the network devices, one or more images depicting each of the two or more network devices; and instantiating, based on the markup language format of the listing of connections therebetween, one or more images depicting connections between the two or more network devices.