Integrated network controlling system, network controlling apparatus and method, and a readable medium containing the method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10212216-B2
Application number	US-201514956315-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2015
Priority date	Dec 1, 2014
Publication date	Feb 19, 2019
Grant date	Feb 19, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a network controlling apparatus including a node status sensing unit configured to sense at least one node operating at least two centers, a center module configured to define at least two closed curves having a common internal area without intersecting each other, to define a first area as the common internal area of the at least two closed curves and a second area as a space between the at least two closed curves and to display the at least two centers in the second area by dividing the at least two centers with a division line connecting the at least two closed curves in the second area; a connection module configured to display a connection line indicating a connection status of the at least one node; and a UI display unit configured to display the lines provided by the center module and the connection module.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated network controlling system comprising:
a network connecting at least two centers; and
a network controlling apparatus computer to control network connection for the at least two centers,
wherein the network controlling apparatus computer is configured to:
generate the at least two centers by disposing the at least two centers in a radial direction;
generate at least one node operating at the at least two centers;
generate a connection line indicating a status of connection between the at least one node;
generate a user interface (UI) as information containing the at least two centers, the node and the connection line and transmit the generated UI to at least one of the at least two centers; and
change the UI according to a change request and transmit the changed UI,
wherein the UI comprises at least two closed curves having a common internal area without intersecting each other, to define a first area as the common internal area of the at least two closed curves and a second area as a space between the at least two closed curves and to display the at least two centers in the second area by dividing the at least two centers with a division line connecting the at least two closed curves in the second area, and
wherein the first area contains a clouding area and a cloud center module configured to display a cloud center, the cloud center being placed in the clouding area.

2. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 , wherein the change request comprises shift of a virtualized node of the at least one node.

3. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 , wherein the closed curves have a circular shape.

4. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one node is provided to the cloud center.

5. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 , wherein an empty area is provided between the cloud center and the closed curves.

6. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one closed curve accommodating the first area is provided inside the second area, and
wherein the center is divided into domains according to the network level.

7. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 6 , wherein the closed curve dividing the domains in one of the centers has a circular shape.

8. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 6 , wherein when the domains belong to the same level, the domains are displayed with the same attribute even if the centers are different from each other.

9. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 6 , wherein the domains comprise hardware resources of the centers,
wherein an outer line of the domains in the centers moves to change the domain area, and
wherein the domain area is proportional to the domain resource size.

10. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
wherein a virtualized node of the at least one node is displayed differently from a non-virtualized node.

11. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1 ,
wherein visualization ranges of the first area and the second area differently according to an authority of a participant accessing a network.

12. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 1
wherein the connection line is displayed differently according to a status of the connection line.

13. The integrated network controlling system according to claim 12 , wherein the connection line is displayed in a different color according to load to the connection line.

Assignees

• Gwangju Inst Science & Tech

Inventors

• Kim Jong-Won
• Na Tae-Heum

Classifications

• H04L41/12

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L41/22 Primary

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• H04W4/60

  Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits · CPC title

• H04L41/122

  of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV] · CPC title