American Power Conversion Corporation

David A Cardimino, Jr

David Joseph Smith

Todd J Giaquinto

Jeffrey J Brown

Elizabeth Schultz

Christian L Kuiawa

A system for use with electric equipment includes a first input/output (I/O) device configured to couple to the electric equipment, a monitor coupled to the first I/O device and configured to determine information regarding the electric equipment, a second I/O device configured to communicate with a communication network, a memory that stores a computer-executable program configured to be executed by a computer to provide a computer interface for providing indicia of the information regarding the electric equipment, the computer interface being in a format that is distinct from a network browser format, and an interface-provisioning device configured to convey the computer-executable program toward the computer via the second input/output device and the communication network.

User interface provisioning

Aspects of the invention are directed to monitoring a plurality of UPS devices coupled to a network. According to one aspect of the invention, a computer is coupled to the plurality of UPS devices through the network and monitors the states of the UPS devices by using a UPS devices monitoring icon. The UPS monitoring icon takes on various shapes depending on the status or state of one or more UPS devices being monitored and generally acts as an annunciator to the status or state. For example, the UPS monitoring iconcan take on one of four symbols depending on whether the UPS devices are operating normally or one or more UPS devices have been diagnosed as being in a 'critical' state, a 'warning' state or an &#x201c;unknown&#x201d; state.

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Warwick, RI, United States of America

David A Cardimino, Jr