Patents by Inventor Brian D. Ehret

Brian D. Ehret has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, system, and program for rendering a visualization of aggregations of network devices
    Publication number: 20040215764
    Abstract: Provided are an article of manufacture, method and system for rendering a visualization of a network of devices. Aggregate device representations are rendered, wherein at least one aggregate device representation provides a single representation for a plurality of the devices. Single device representations for the devices not represented by the at least one aggregate device representation are rendered. Connection representations of connections between rendered representations of the devices in the network are rendered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Allen, Jeffrey Lawrence Sokolov, Brian D. Ehret
  • Method, system, and program for rendering a visualization of network devices
    Publication number: 20030130821
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for rendering a visualization of network devices in a computer user interface. A rendering is made of device representations of a plurality of devices in a network and of connection representations of connections between devices, wherein the connection representation between each pair of connected devices comprises a line extending between the two connected devices that forms approximately a ninety degree angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberta Anslow, Helen Cunningham, Brian D. Ehret, Randall B. Smith, Jeffrey Lawrence Sokolov, Jason Peck, John Ackerley