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Method and apparatus for graphical device management using a virtual console

  • US 7,047,495 B1
  • Filed: 06/30/2000
  • Issued: 05/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for developing a device management application to manage a remote device, comprising:

  • providing a graphical programming language environment to develop source code for a command-set aware user interface, the source code to be used to generate a user interface to execute at the remote device to configure a configuration parameter of the remote device according to a configuration command of the command set;

    providing a graphical programming language environment to develop source code for a command-set unaware graphical user interface (GUI) of the device management application, the command-set unaware GUI to be executed remotely from the remote device;

    linking the source code for the command-set aware user interface in the source code for the command-set unaware GUI to provide a graphical component in the command-set unaware GUI associated with the configuration command; and

    building the source code for the command-set unaware GUI with the linked source code for the command-set aware user interface to result in the device management application having the command-set unaware GUI with the command-set aware user interface running beneath the GUI, both the GUI and the command-set aware user interface executing remotely from the remote device, with the GUI having the graphical component to provide access to the associated configuration command.

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