Abstract: A secure remote access computing system for executing tasks on a secure private network requested by an unsecured remote computing device connected to the secure private network by way of a public communication network, without exposing any device in the secure private network other than a designated network interface device to the public communication network. The network interface device dynamically generates a custom program containing the necessary network data and user interfaces and verifies the security privileges for the remote computing device, so that a remote user can define the task being executed on the private network by way of the secure network interface device surrogate. The unsecured remote computing device and the secure network interface device communicate by accepted conventions of protocols and commands that are well known and used by other users of the public communication network.

Abstract: An interactive graph display system for storing a sequence of present values in a memory for at least one display element, generating a graph primitive on a display wherein the graph primitive is comprised of at least one display element, dynamically updating any of the at least one display element in the display, and generating display element details for one of the at least one display element in response to a user input command. Generating a graph primitive includes generating a scale for each of the at least one display element in the graph primitive, and scaling each of the at least one display element according to the scale for each of the at least one display element in the graph primitive.

Abstract: A status monitoring system for a computer network including obtaining, concurrently displaying, and dynamically updating, the operational state of a plurality of nodes in a computer network. The operational state for each node is displayed concurrently in an expandable hierarchical display having a dynamically updatable operational state icon corresponding to each node in the network. The operational state icon is characteristic of a traffic light and can be used in combination with superimposed status indicators.