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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2001
Applicants:

Mark W. Sylor, Nashua, NH (US);

Gordon Booman, Berlin, MA (US);

Richard Buttiglieri, Stow, MA (US);

Gary Pratt, Hudson, MA (US);

Karen Whitehead, Boxborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Mark W. Sylor, Nashua, NH (US);

Gordon Booman, Berlin, MA (US);

Richard Buttiglieri, Stow, MA (US);

Gary Pratt, Hudson, MA (US);

Karen Whitehead, Boxborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

Computer Associates Think, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention features a method and apparatus for displaying the status of networked resources, including rendering in a fishbone layout a hierarchy that includes a plurality of resource profiles and a plurality of dependency relationships among resource profiles in the plurality of resource profiles, where the resource profiles represent networked resources. The invention also features a method and apparatus for displaying the status of networked resources, to include rendering fishbone layouts in a snowflake layout. Each fishbone layout features a hierarchy with resource profiles and dependency relationships among the resource profiles. The resource profiles represent networked resources. Hierarchies in the snowflake layout share a common root.


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