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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2000
Lee Anthony Walker, Watford, GB;
Mark Douglas Cook, St Albans, GB;
Christopher Robert Linzell, St Albans, GB;
Simon Peter Valentine, Hemel Hempstead, GB;
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Network supervising apparatus comprising a store ( ), in use, storing information relating to the components ( ) of the network, the links ( ) between those components, and the type of each link, a visual display apparatus ( ) connectable with said store and including processor apparatus ( ) to convert the information in said store into a visual display on said visual display apparatus, the visual display representing the physical relationship between the components and the links of the network, said processor apparatus processing the signals to said visual display to visually distinguish at least some of said links according to type.