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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yongmei Hu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ryder S. Booth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shyam Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for presenting, in a computer-generated graphical user interface, a network topology map of a plurality of nodes and data links. The plurality of nodes includes at least one aggregated node that represents multiple devices of a data communication network. Each of the data links represents a physical connection between devices represented by nodes. Detecting a selection of a first aggregated node and in response to detecting the selection, causing presentation of an expanded view comprising a list of the multiple devices of the first aggregated node. Detecting a selection of a first device of the multiple devices and presenting an updated network topology map comprising the plurality of nodes including the first aggregated node, the plurality of data links, and a first device node that represents the first device. The first aggregated node representing remaining devices of the two or more devices other than the first device.