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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Daniel L. Tonelli, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Kevin M. Maloney, Swampscott, MA (US);
Kevin W. Cronin, Norfolk, MA (US);
Martin H. Katz, Framingham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Visionael Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G66F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G66F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A method for designing networks including auditing a network to discover a present network configuration, creating a network design sheet from the discovered network configuration, placing device icons representing intelligent device objects on the network design sheet, selecting a media type representing an intelligent media object, and connecting the media type to a first one of the device icons. The method further includes validating the connection to the first one of the device icons.