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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Jeffrey Hing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jay Perry, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven R. Klinkner, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeffrey Hing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jay Perry, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven R. Klinkner, Fremont, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) architecture is configured to enable efficient management of resources in a storage system environment. The GUI architecture is embodied within a namespace and storage management (NSM) application as a GUI toolkit configured to produce reusable GUI components, such as a navigation frame, a wizard and a dialog box. In particular, the reusable wizard allows users to make intelligent choices toward successful completions of desired actions by, e.g., only requesting information needed to accomplish those actions.