Network Service Relationship Visualization for Unified Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network service provisioning systems lack a unified dashboard or graphical view of services provided to a single customer or across multiple customers, failing to collate and visualize the relationships between network services, end-users, and service locations effectively.
Innovation Solution
A computing system collects and analyzes information from databases to generate a graphical representation of network services, including SASE services, and their relationships with end-users and service locations, providing a unified interface for visualization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If network services are provisioned on a service-by-service basis, then each service can be managed independently, but no unified graphical view or consolidated dashboard is provided for customers or service providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple service-specific views into a single unified graphical dashboard that consolidates network services, end-users, service locations, and their relationships. This combining approach allows service providers and customers to view all services and their interconnections in one interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple service-specific dashboards while preserving complete relationship information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimensional view by creating a graphical representation that maps relationships across multiple dimensions - connecting services to end-users, services to locations, and services to other services. This multi-dimensional graphical interface transforms flat service data into a rich visual network that reveals relationships invisible in traditional service-by-service views.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple network services are provided across multiple customers, then service coverage is expanded, but complexity of managing and visualizing service relationships increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal graphical dashboard that serves multiple functions simultaneously - visualizing services for single or multiple customers, displaying service relationships, showing geographic locations, and enabling service provisioning. This multi-functional interface handles diverse service scenarios (single-customer, multi-customer, different service types) through a unified system, reducing complexity despite expanded service coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs parameter changes by allowing the graphical view to dynamically adjust based on selection criteria - filtering by customer, service type, location, or relationship. This parametric control enables the system to handle complex multi-customer service portfolios by allowing users to focus on specific subsets of services, effectively managing complexity through configurable view parameters.
Data Source
AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing visualization for network services and their relationships with end-users, service locations, and other network services. In various examples, a computing system may collect, from one or more databases, information regarding one or more network services provided by a service provider. The information may include at least one of end-user information, service-specific information, service location information, or contact information, and/or the like. The computing system may identify information objects and their relationships by analyzing the collected information. The computing system may generate a graphical representation of the information objects and their relationships, and may generate a user interface (“UI”) for presenting the generated graphical representation, and may display, on a display screen of a user device, the UI to a user.