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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philip Brighten Godfrey, Champaign, IL (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for automatically presenting a hierarchical graphical representation of the structure of the computer network are provided. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining network topology data, determining at least one core node at a highest level in a hierarchy from a plurality of nodes based on the network topology data, grouping at least a part of non-core nodes among the nodes into one or more supernodes based on the obtained network topology data, selecting, with respect each of the one or more supernodes, a single supernode or node at a hierarchical level immediately higher than thereof, as a parent node, determining a spatial coordinate of each of the plurality of nodes based on the at least one core node, the one or more supernodes, and the parent node of each of the one or more supernodes, and presenting the hierarchical graphical representation.