Configuration diagram with context sensitive connectivity
First Claim
1. A method for displaying a configuration of a system comprising a plurality of devices, wherein the method executes on a first computer system, the method comprising:
- displaying a plurality of device icons corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of devices in the system;
displaying connections between the plurality of device icons, wherein the displayed connections correspond to couplings between the plurality of devices;
wherein one or more of the connections displayed between respective device icons have an appearance to visually indicate a type of connection between the respective devices.
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Abstract
A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation of distributed programs, and executing distributed applications. Embodiments of the invention utilize graphical iconic-based techniques for performing the above operations. The configuration diagram may include device icons which represent devices and program icons which represent programs. Device icons and program icons may be associated with each other to accomplish various program creation and deployment operations. Device icons and program icons may also interact with graphical program nodes or icons. Context sensitive device connections and/or program connections are displayed. An asynchronous data flow node may be used to facilitate asynchronous data flow between two graphical programs. The distributed system may also support distributed graphical debugging.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for displaying a configuration of a system comprising a plurality of devices, wherein the method executes on a first computer system, the method comprising:
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displaying a plurality of device icons corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of devices in the system;
displaying connections between the plurality of device icons, wherein the displayed connections correspond to couplings between the plurality of devices;
wherein one or more of the connections displayed between respective device icons have an appearance to visually indicate a type of connection between the respective devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for displaying a configuration of a system comprising a plurality of devices, wherein the method executes on a first computer system, the method comprising:
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displaying a plurality of device icons corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of devices in the system;
receiving user input indicating a desire to connect a first device icon to a second device icon;
displaying a first connection between the first device icon and the second device icon after the user input, wherein the first connection has an appearance which visually indicates a type of connection between the first and second device icons. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method for displaying a configuration of a system comprising a plurality of devices, wherein the method executes on a first computer system, the method comprising:
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displaying a configuration diagram on a display of the first computer system, wherein the configuration diagram includes a plurality of device icons corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of devices in the system, wherein the configuration diagram also includes connections between the plurality of device icons, wherein the connections correspond to couplings between the plurality of devices;
wherein one or more of the connections displayed between respective device icons have an appearance to visually indicate a type of connection between the respective devices. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for displaying a configuration of a measurement system comprising a plurality of measurement devices, wherein the method executes on a first computer system, the method comprising:
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displaying a plurality of device icons corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of measurement devices in the system;
displaying connections between the plurality of device icons, wherein the displayed connections correspond to couplings between the plurality of measurement devices;
wherein one or more of the connections displayed between respective device icons have an appearance to visually indicate a type of connection between the respective measurement devices. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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