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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
May. 05, 1999
Stephen T. Kelly, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A facility automatically generates diagrams of system using a stored model of the system. For example, the facility employs a database storing a model of interconnected elements that represents a computer network system comprised of interconnected components. The facility receives user input as to what the user wishes to place in the diagram. By selecting a shape in the diagram and displaying options with respect to that shape, the facility queries the database and filters out only the elements logically connected to the selected shape. The user can then view such filtered elements to decide which elements to add to the figure. The facility then automatically adds shapes of such elements to the figure, with appropriate connections to the initial shape selected.