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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1999
Daniel L. Tonelli, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Wayne F. Tackabury, West Tisbury, MA (US);
Visionael Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of designing a network includes the steps of populating a network design sheet on a computer display with an intelligent device object that represents a device object having physical attributes and logical attributes, selecting a communication protocol object representing a communication protocol having logical attributes, determining if the communication protocol object can be validly bound to the intelligent device object by comparing the logical attributes of each, and binding the communication protocol object to the intelligent device object on the network design sheet only if the binding is valid.