3com Corporation

Russell Kennett Bulmer

Lee Anthony Walker

Simon Peter Valentine

Christopher Robert Linzell

Mark Douglas Cook

Paul Robert Jones

In a computer network, a process of discovery of the network, including discovery of network phones, and means for retrieving an icon relating to the phones and displaying a network map including network phones in the network map.

Display of phones on a map of a network

In a computer network, a process for discovering devices in the network, including network phones, and constructing a topological map of the network; and associated apparatus for retrieving an icon relating to the phones and displaying the map including the phones therein.

Discovery of phones on a network, such as a LAN

Graphically distinguishing a path between two points on a network

A method for providing a data set relating to a network by merging a first data set relating to the network at a first time and a second data set relating to the network at a s second, later, time, said first data set comprising data acquired by interrogation of the network and other data, and said second data set comprising data acquired by interrogation of the network, said method comprising: comparing the data in the first data set with the second data set, and updating the first data set to include additional data present in the second data to set which is not present in the first data set.

Merging network data sets comprising data acquired by interrogation of a network

Network problem indication

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Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Russell Kennett Bulmer