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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2015
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Danail Grigorov, Sofia, BG;
Martin Marinov, Sofia, BG;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for a processor to provide a user interface to manage entities in a software system domain includes, in response to receiving a command line, executing the command, receiving the output of the command where the output include metadata of an entity in the software system domain, preserving the metadata, converting the output to a text item, displaying the converted text item in the user interface, and associating the text item in the user interface with its metadata. The method further includes, in response to receiving a user interaction with the displayed text item from a pointing device or a keyboard, retrieving the metadata associated with the text item in the user interface and performing, based on the metadata associated with the text item, an entity-specific action for the selected item, such as generating an entity-specific contextual menu or invoking a command on the entity.