Patent 10290129 was granted and assigned to Arista Networks on May, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for visualizing a network. The method includes identifying, for each of a set of network elements, a network element role and a network element connectivity, grouping the network elements based on the network element roles, displaying at least a subset of the grouped network elements, and displaying connections between the displayed network elements, based on the network element connectivity.