Graphical selection of information display for wireless mesh hierarchies

• US 7,508,787 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Issued: 03/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Truitt, Raymond Todd, Doshi, Bhautik, Davi, Gregg Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Gary; Erika A
• Application Number:
  US11/624,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20070280165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a geographical map illustrating locations of a plurality of wireless nodes of a mesh network; displaying a hierarchically-arranged filter that shows a hierarchical relation of the plurality of wireless nodes; receives a filter configuration; and displaying in the geographical map a subset of the plurality of wireless nodes based on the filter configuration.

Claims

1. Logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution and when executed operable to:

display a geographical map illustrating locations of a plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes of a hierarchical wireless mesh network;

display a hierarchically-arranged filter that shows a hierarchical relation of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes;

receive a filter configuration resulting from selection of one or more attributes of the hierarchically-arranged filter; and

display in the geographical map a subset of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes based on the filter configuration.

2. The logic of claim 1 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter includes one or more wireless mesh routing node groupings, each including one or more of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes, defined by one or more tree-based attributes.

3. The logic of claim 2 wherein the wireless mesh routing node grouping comprises wireless mesh routing nodes of a predefined number of hops.

4. The logic of claim 2 wherein the wireless node grouping comprises at least one parent wireless mesh routing node and one or more children of the parent wireless mesh routing node.

5. The logic of claim 1 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter shows link elements illustrating logical parent-child associations between wireless mesh routing nodes.

6. The logic of claim 1 wherein the logic is further operative to display information associated with a given wireless mesh routing node or link between wireless mesh routing nodes when a user mouses over the wireless mesh routing node.

7. The logic of claim 6 wherein the information comprises status information of the wireless mesh routing nodes.

8. The logic of claim 6 wherein the information comprises link attribute information between wireless mesh routing nodes.

9. A method comprising:

displaying a geographical map illustrating locations of a plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes of a hierarchical wireless mesh network;

displaying a hierarchically-arranged filter that shows a hierarchical relation of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes;

receiving a filter configuration resulting from selection of one or more attributes of the hierarchically-arranged filter; and

displaying in the geographical map a subset of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes based on the filter configuration.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter includes one or more wireless node groupings defined by one or more tree-based attributes.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the wireless mesh routing node grouping comprises wireless mesh routing nodes of a predefined number of hops.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the wireless mesh routing node grouping comprises at least one parent wireless mesh routing node and one or more children of the parent wireless mesh routing node.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter shows link elements illustrating logical parent-child associations between wireless mesh routing nodes.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprising displaying information associated with a given wireless mesh routing node or link between wireless mesh routing nodes when a user mouses over the wireless mesh routing node.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the information comprises status information of the wireless mesh routing nodes.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the information comprises link attribute information between wireless mesh routing nodes.

17. A network management server comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory;

a network interface; and

a management application, physically stored in the memory, comprising instructions operable to cause the one or more processors and the network management server to;

gather information relating to a status of a plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes in a hierarchical wireless mesh network; and

transmit page-based interfaces to clients, wherein the page-based interfaces comprises embedded program code operative to;

display a geographical map illustrating locations of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes;

display a hierarchically-arranged filter that shows a hierarchical relation of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes;

receive a filter configuration resulting from selection of one or more attributes of the hierarchically-arranged filter; and

display in the geographical map a subset of the plurality of wireless mesh routing nodes based on the filter configuration.

18. The network management server of claim 17 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter includes one or more wireless node groupings defined by one or more tree-based attributes.

19. The network management server of claim 18 wherein the wireless mesh routing node grouping comprises wireless mesh routing nodes of a predefined number of hops.

20. The network management server of claim 18 wherein the wireless mesh routing node grouping comprises at least one parent wireless mesh routing node and one or more children of the parent wireless mesh routing node.

21. The network management server of claim 17 wherein the hierarchically-arranged filter shows link elements illustrating logical parent-child associations between wireless mesh routing nodes.

22. The network management server of claim 17 wherein the embedded program code is further operative to display information associated with a given wireless mesh routing node or link between wireless mesh routing nodes when a user mouses over the wireless mesh routing node.

23. The network management server of claim 22 wherein the information comprises status information of the wireless mesh routing nodes.

24. The network management server of claim 22 wherein the information comprises link attribute information between wireless mesh routing nodes.