Network management gateway

Patent 5742762 Issued on April 21, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

May 19, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Telogy Networks, Inc.

Application

No. 444483 filed on 05/19/1995

US Classes:

709/200, MISCELLANEOUS709/223, COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGING709/224, Computer network monitoring709/227COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER SESSION/CONNECTION ESTABLISHING

Examiners

Primary: Sheikh, Ayaz R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Glazier; Stephen C.

International Class

G06F 013/00

Abstract

The present invention provides network management of a network or multiple networks, using a Web client, and including multimedia and hypermedia capability. The present invention provides a unified, remote, graphical, transparent interface for Web users, working at a Web client, to a variety of managed networks. The present invention receives requests from a Web client forwarded by a Web server and interacts with the managed networks and their associated objects to obtain information. The present invention then converts this information in real time to hypermedia document format in HTTP and HTML, and transmits this information to the Web client via the Web server, appearing to the client as information in a Web file. This permits a Web user to manage multiple networks and access multiple networks via a single Web client, thus providing a unification of the management interface for dissimilar managed networks, and devices.