Data processing: presentation processing of document – operator i – Operator interface – On-screen workspace or object
Reexamination Certificate
2008-08-22
2010-02-23
Pillai, Namitha (Department: 2173)
Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i
Operator interface
On-screen workspace or object
C715S734000, C715S736000, C715S767000, C715S853000, C715S969000, C715S970000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07669139
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and program product utilize a displayed pictorial representation that depicts the actual physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components in a physical computer system to facilitate the collective management of the underlying hardware components. Typically, within such a pictorial representation, a selected status is displayed for multiple of such hardware components, thereby permitting hardware components sharing common attributes or characteristics to be identified in an efficient and intuitive manner, as well as to permit collective management operations to be performed on all selected hardware components. In addition, a pictorial representation may be dynamically generated to represent the physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components within a plurality of computers. In connection with such dynamic generation, the plurality of computers may be accessed to identify the plurality of hardware components that are resident in such computers.
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Hintermeister Gregory Richard
Lory Bradley James
Mead David Walter
Peh Chee
Royer Steven Edward
International Business Machines - Corporation
Pillai Namitha
Wood Herron & Evans LLP
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