US 12,088,468 B2
Differential node configuration for network maintenance
Michael Franz Baukes, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Paul McCarthy, Palo Alto, CA (US); Greg Pollock, San Jose, CA (US); Alan Sharp-Paul, Los Altos, CA (US); Mark Sheahan, Mountain View, CA (US); Taylor Stackpole, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Cheyne Wallace, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to UPGUARD, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by UpGuard, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on May 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/745,880.
Application 17/745,880 is a continuation of application No. 16/919,379, filed on Jul. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,368,367.
Application 16/919,379 is a continuation of application No. 16/109,304, filed on Aug. 22, 2018, granted, now 10,742,507, issued on Aug. 11, 2020.
Application 16/109,304 is a continuation of application No. 14/872,020, filed on Sep. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,084,653, issued on Sep. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0278901 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 41/0853 (2022.01); H04L 41/0873 (2022.01); H04L 41/142 (2022.01); H04L 41/22 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0893 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0853 (2013.01); H04L 41/0873 (2013.01); H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for configuring one or more target nodes communicatively coupled to an operator node in a network comprising:
generating, by the operator node, a differential visualization interface for display by a hardware display and illustrating 1) a difference between a first set of system attributes of a first node at a current time and at a previous time and 2) a second set of system attributes of the first node common between the current time and the previous time, the differential visualization interface including a slider bar interface element that enables a user to select the previous time from a plurality of previous times and organizing displayed system attributes into categories comprising at least hardware attributes, port attributes, and file attributes that are associated with a set of system attributes;
in response to receiving from the user, at the operator node, a selection of the previous time from the plurality of previous times via the slider bar interface element, modifying the differential visualization interface to indicate 1) the first set of system attributes of the first node different between the current time and the selected previous time and 2) the second set of system attributes of the first node common between the current time and the selected previous time;
in response to receiving a request from the user, at the operator node, identifying one or more attributes of the first node that trigger a policy failure event by, in aggregate, exceeding a policy violation severity threshold, and re-configuring the identified one or more attributes of the first node by re-configuring the one or more attributes to mirror a target system attribute of the first set of system attributes and the second set of system attributes, wherein the target system attribute does not cause a policy failure event, and wherein the slider bar interface element indicates a plurality of policy failure events at different times such that, when the slider bar interface element is moved to a time associated with a selected policy failure event, attributes associated with one or more nodes corresponding to the selected policy failure event are highlighted; and
in response to re-configuring one or more attributes of the first node, updating, by the operator node, the displayed differential visualization to indicate a change in variance associated with the system attribute by highlighting each of the one or more re-configured attributes within the displayed differential visualization such that an opacity of each highlight varies based at least in part on how recently a corresponding attribute was re-configured.