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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2009
J. Russell Boykin, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Patricia Diana Griffin, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher Andrew Peters, Round Rock, TX (US);
J. Russell Boykin, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Alberto Giammaria, Austin, TX (US);
Patricia Diana Griffin, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher Andrew Peters, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) in which a user may navigate through states of an information technology (IT) management process by selecting or deselecting the selectable objects in the GUI. When the user selects a first object in a first display window of the GUI, the first display window is changed to represent a first state of the IT management process based on the selected object, and the second display window is changed to show computing objects and relationships associated with the selected object. When the user selects another associated object in the first display window, the first display window is changed to represent a second state of the IT management process based on the selected object, and the and the second display window is changed to show computing objects and relationships associated with the selected object.