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US 9,542,145 B2Granted
Dynamic user interface for device management system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsGreg Melendez, Tom Haapanen
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Abstract
Tools are provided for managing information technology (IT) devices in an IT environment in which at least some of the devices are connected to a network, and device information is presented to a user in a dynamic, manageable and informative manner. The device information presented may be on a global or enterprise-wide scale, or drilled down to a more specific level, geographically or otherwise.
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A device management apparatus to manage a plurality of network-connected devices, said device management apparatus comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying one or more programs of executable instructions to configure the device management apparatus to include:
- a device management unit that maintains and retrieves data in a device data store storing device data for the plurality of network-connected devices;
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- a slice-and-dice data extraction unit that displays a graphical user interface (GUI) including
- a parameter selection part for user selection of a device data parameter of interest and user selection of a sub-parameter, and
- a widget selection part for user selection of at least one graphical widget type from a plurality of candidate widget types, and
- a widget display part that displays a graphical widget of interest of the user-selected widget type and rendered to reflect data corresponding to the user-selected device data parameter of interest for the plurality of network-connected devices, retrieved by the device management unit from the device data store,
- wherein when the user-selected device sub-parameter is location, the widget display part displays additional graphical widgets breaking down the retrieved data of the user-selected parameter to respective regions, and in response to user selection of a particular graphical widget amongst the additional graphical widgets, the widget display part replaces the graphical widget of interest with the particular graphical widget, and displays, alongside the particular graphical widget, replacement graphical widgets replacing the additional graphical widgets, respectively, and further breaking down the data corresponding to the particular graphical widget to respective sub-regions of the region corresponding to the user-selected particular graphical widget.
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A system for managing a plurality of network-connected devices, said system comprising:
- a device data store storing device data for the plurality of network-connected devices;
- a terminal apparatus including a processing unit and a graphical display unit;
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- a slice-and-dice data extraction unit that causes a graphical user interface (GUI) to be displayed on the graphical display unit of the terminal apparatus, the GUI including
- a parameter selection part for user selection of a device data parameter of interest and user selection of a sub-parameter, and
- a widget selection part for user selection of at least one graphical widget type from a plurality of candidate widget types, and
- a widget display part that displays a graphical widget of interest of the user-selected widget type and rendered to reflect data corresponding to the user-selected device data parameter of interest for the plurality of network-connected devices, retrieved from the device data store,
- wherein when the user-selected device sub-parameter is location, the widget display part displays additional graphical widgets breaking down the retrieved data of the user-selected parameter to respective regions, and in response to user selection of a particular graphical widget amongst the additional graphical widgets, the widget display part replaces the graphical widget of interest with the particular graphical widget, and displays, alongside the particular graphical widget, replacement graphical widgets replacing the additional graphical widgets, respectively, and further breaking down the data corresponding to the particular graphical widget to respective sub-regions of the region corresponding to the user-selected particular graphical widget.
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A method of managing a plurality of network-connected devices in a network environment, said method comprising:
- collecting device data from the plurality of network-connected devices in the network environment;
- storing the collected device data in a device data store in the network environment;
- displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) on a terminal device of a user;
- receiving a user selection, via the graphical user interface, of a device data parameter of interest, a sub-parameter and a graphical widget type;
- retrieving from the device data store data corresponding to the user-selected device data parameter of interest for the plurality of network-connected devices and displaying in a widget display part of the graphical user interface, (i) a graphical widget of interest of the user-selected graphical widget type based on the user selection of the device data parameter of interest and (ii) additional graphical widgets based on the user selection of the sub-parameter,
- wherein when the user-selected device sub-parameter is location, the additional graphical widgets breaks down the retrieved data of the user-selected parameter to respective regions, and in response to user selection of a particular graphical widget amongst the additional graphical widgets, the widget display part replaces the graphical widget of interest with the particular graphical widget, and displays, alongside the particular graphical widget, replacement graphical widgets replacing the additional graphical widgets, respectively, and breaking down the data corresponding to the particular graphical widget to respective sub-regions of the region corresponding to the user-selected particular graphical widget.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.