Network status animation tool
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsRonald Louis House, Joe B. Quint
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Abstract
A web-based geographic network status tool using an animation process uses sequential displays of web pages, one after the other. Each page reflects the status of the network for a different time block. The animation optionally includes two layers. One layer shows which elements (towers) are faulty and why (e.g., subject to power failure, undergoing software or hardware problems, transport problems). The other layer displays if the problem has been perpetuated for more than one time block.
Claims30
One or more computer-readable media, having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of managing a network, the method comprising:
- receiving a first status datum for a first network element at a first location at a first time;
- receiving a second status datum for said first network element at said first location at a second time;
- geographically displaying said first status datum;
- and
- geographically displaying said second status datum after geographically displaying said first status datum.
One or more computer-readable media, having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of managing a network, the method comprising:
- receiving status information regarding a plurality of distinctly-located network elements at a first time;
- receiving status information regarding said plurality at a second time;
- geographically displaying said status information of said plurality of said network elements at said first time;
- and
- geographically displaying said status information regarding said plurality of network elements at said second time.
A method of managing a network comprising:
- receiving a first status datum for a first network element at a first location at a first time;
- receiving a second status datum for said first network element at said first location at a second time;
- geographically displaying said first status datum;
- and
- geographically displaying said second status datum after geographically displaying said first status datum.
A method of managing a network comprising:
- receiving status information regarding a plurality of distinctly-located network elements at a first time;
- receiving status information regarding said plurality at a second time;
- geographically displaying said status information of said plurality of said network elements at said first time;
- and
- geographically displaying said status information regarding said plurality of network elements at said second time.
A network-management system comprising:
- a database having a first interface for periodically receiving status information regarding a plurality of distinctly-located network elements from a client in order to maintain a historical record of the status of said plurality of distinctly-located network elements;
- a second interface into said database enabling a user to access status information at a plurality of instances in the historical record;
- a geographical viewer for using said instances accessed to create an graphical animation by sequentially displaying each instance in said plurality of instances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.