Apparatus for displaying mounting state of device

• US 6,622,060 B1
• Filed: 07/19/2000
• Issued: 09/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Naomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): CABRERA, ZOILA E
• Application Number:
  US09/619,340
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 700/121, 700/56-59, 700/108, 700/182, 716/8-18, 702/33, 702/34, 702/81-84
• US Class Current: 700/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mounting-state display apparatus for displaying the mounting-states of devices. Particularly, the present invention provides a mounting-state display apparatus enabled to automatically generate a display, indicating the mounting-states of various kinds of packages in the devices, which is not limited to a specific device, by using an NE-OPS for managing the devices. This mounting-state display apparatus comprises a device component database, for holding device components, which represents a mounting state of an arbitrary one of the devices as original picture elements of a minimum configuration required to indicate a mounting-state display and an application program portion for accessing the device component database and for generating a display indicating the mounting state of a specific one of the devices by performing operations of placing the original picture elements and changing the size thereof.

Claims

1. A mounting state display apparatus for displaying mounting-states of devices, comprising:

a device component database, for holding device components, which represents a mounting state of each of said devices as original picture elements of a minimum configuration required to indicate a mounting state display; and

an application program portion for accessing said device component database and for generating a display indicating a mounting state of a specific one of said devices by performing operations of placing said original picture elements and changing a size thereof;

wherein said application program portion is adapted to receive device constitution information from a device having a mounting state to be displayed when accessing said device component database and to read original picture elements from said database according to the device constitution information;

wherein the device constitution information includes placement starting point information of the original picture elements for the operation of placing the original picture elements and size information of the original picture elements for the operation of changing the size thereof with reference to the placement starting point; and

wherein said application program portion is adapted to draw the original picture elements on an image display layer corresponding to each of one or more classes of apparatus after the operations of placing and changing the size thereof and wherein the original picture elements, which are drawn on the image display layer provided on a front-surface side, are preferentially displayed by superimposing,images along the layers.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said device component database holds original picture elements classified into classes according to internal placement configuration of the device components.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said device component database has a header portion which corresponds to each of the classes and describes position information and size information of the original picture elements of each of the classes.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the classes include units, blocks, and packages and correspond to a rear-surface unit image display layer, and a front-surface package image display layer, respectively.