Custom administrator views of management objects

• US 6,754,702 B1
• Filed: 10/02/1998
• Issued: 06/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Clearinghouse LLC (RPX Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited (Nortel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Cole, Robert E., Farrell, Bernard, Donahue, Peter E., Kennelly, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thompson, Marc D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VU, THONG H
• Application Number:
  US09/165,507
• Time in Patent Office: 2,090 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 709/202, 709/219, 709/203, 709/226, 707/3, 707/103, 707/9, 707/10, 707/256, 707/102, 345/334, 345/473, 345/356, 345/335, 713/200, 711/163
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/024 using relational databases for representation of network management data, e.g. managing via structured query language [SQL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A network device using a method for presenting a set of network-based administrative management objects based on attributes associated with a user. The method includes determining attributes of the user, storing a base management object, providing an organization specific management object, and displaying a graphic user interface. The organization management object defines the graphic user interface and interfaces a user to a computer system. The base management object provides the organization specific management object based on the attributes of the user.

Claims

1. A method for presenting a set of network-based administrative management objects based on attributes of a user, the method comprising:

determining the attributes of the user, wherein the attributes include characteristics of the user that govern the users actions in the network;

storing a base management object;

providing an organization specific management object from the base management object based on attributes of the user; and

displaying a graphic user interface defined by the organization management object to interface the user to a computer system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one organization specific management object available to the user associated with the organization is unique from other organization management objects available to other users associated with the organization.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one organization specific management object available to the user associated with the organization is unique from other organization specific management objects available to other users of other organizations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein graphic user interface provided by the organization specific management object has a first region defined by a first programming language and a second, different region defined by a second, different programming language.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first region is based on the JAVA programming language and the second region is based on the HTML programming language.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the first region is based on the JAVA programming language and the HTML programming language.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the graphical user interface is a web page.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

incorporating from a data structure, attributes that define privileges of the organization, into a request processor that defines, at least in part, the organization specific management object of the organization.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

parsing a data file to produce at least one organization specific management object unique to the user of the organization.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the request processor parses a plurality of indicator tags to associate data with the organization specific management object based on attributes of the organization.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of indicator tags comprise a security tag, a server side include tag, and a script tag.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dynamically providing the organization specific management object from a set of data files.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

parsing a plurality of data files; and

dynamically producing the organization specific management object.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the interface is one interface type of a plurality of interface types.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of interface types includes a standard interface type.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of interface types includes a services interface type.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of interface types includes a guided interface type.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating authorized data into the organization specific management object of the user; and

disassociating unauthorized data from the organization specific management object of the user.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

parsing a set of data files;

allowing access to data of the set of data files by authorized users; and

disallowing access to data of the set of data files by unauthorized users.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring data for the organization specific management object between a parser and a data manager, wherein the data manager accepts data parsed by the parser to assemble, at least in part, the organization specific management object.

21. A method for allocating the resources of the network packet switch between a plurality of organizations, the method comprising:

storing a base management object;

setting attributes of the organization, wherein the attributes include characteristics of the organization that govern the organizations actions at the network packet switch;

defining an organization specific management object based on the management object and privileges of the organization; and

displaying a graphical user interface based on the organization specific management object to interface a user of the organization to a computer system.

22. A method for controlling access to a network, comprising the steps of:

storing a base management object for the network;

determining privileges of an user seeking to interact with the network;

defining an user management object from the base management object based on said privileges; and

displaying an user interface defined by the user management object to interface the user to the network.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the step of determining privileges of the user comprises determining an organization associated with the user.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the step of determining privileges of the user comprises differentiating the user from other uses.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the base management object includes a plurality of objects, and wherein the step of defining an user management object comprises the step of selecting a subset of said plurality of objects.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising the step of accepting an user modified object from the user for inclusion in the base management object.