Method for configuring displets for an interactive platform for analyzing a computer network performance

• US 9,043,704 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: InfoVista SAS
• Original Assignee: InfoVista S.A.
• Inventors: Allot, Jean-Franois
• Primary Examiner(s): SAX, STEVEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US12/295,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,986 Days
• Field of Search: 715734-739, 715770-772, 715748-749, 715/802, 715/804, 715741-743
• US Class Current: 715/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A method for configuring an interactive platform for monitoring the performance and the quality of a computer network, the monitoring data being suitable to be displayed on a dynamic page of type webpage in a form of graphic components called “displets”; including providing, on the interactive platform a configuration interface in which are defined, for at least one given user, filtering criteria for displaying displets, the criteria being defined in the form of parameters for configuring the rights of the at least one user.

Claims

1. A method for configuring an interactive platform for monitoring the performance and the quality of a computer network, the monitoring data being suitable to be displayed on a dynamic page of type webpage in a form of graphic components called data display elements, comprising:

providing on the interactive platform, a configuration interface in which are defined, for two or more given users;

providing first filtering criteria for displaying the data display elements, said first criteria being defined in the form of parameters for configuring the rights of said two or more users;

saving said parameters in a platform database;

using a user configuration interface, providing second filtering criteria as alphanumeric information to be included in a uniform resource locator (URL) submitted via a web browser on the data display elements;

combining said first filtering criteria and said second filtering criteria defined in the URL to affect authorization of said users;

establishing an exhaustive list of shared criteria at a level of said parameters of said users, said shared criteria being combinable with existing filtering criteria based on a review of an inheritance hierarchy between said users;

systematically using said combined criteria, by said components on a server side, for each request to the database; and

displaying the data display elements based on said combined filtering criteria to said users.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said combined criteria are systematically activated by the interactive platform in order to ensure secure access to data.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said combined criteria are applied to a given group of data display elements.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said combined criteria are applied to the set of data display elements for different pages.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said combined criteria are applied to a group of users.

6. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that said combined criteria are applied to each user of the group by inheritance.

7. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that each group is organized according to a multi-level tree structure, and in that specific combined criteria are defined for a given tree structure level.

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that said specific combined criteria are combined further with the criteria defined at the group level.

9. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that said specific combined criteria replace, for said given level, the criteria defined at the group level.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the rights of a given user are restricted to the definition and the visibility of said combined criteria.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein said combined criteria for displaying the data display elements are hierarchically defined.