Edge Technologies Awarded Patent for Secure Portal-Based
Information Display and Consolidation Technology
Delivers Web-Based, User-Specific Views of Real-Time, Dynamic Content via Secure Portlets
press release, 09/20/07
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Fairfax, VA, September 20, 2007, Edge Technologies, Inc. a leading vendor of secure
information sharing and portal display software, announces the award of a patent for System and
method for monitoring and managing an enterprise network (7,269,625) for its enPortal secure
network management portal system.
Edge enPortal is used by large enterprises, government agencies and global network service
providers in some of the worlds most secure and complex network environments. Edge enPortal
provides secure, user-specific managed services views of real-time OSS and infrastructure
management applications, delivering dynamic views such as status and threshold events,
topology maps and network performance alarms to their customers via secure extranets, as well
as consolidated OSS views for internal users. enPortal integrates commonly deployed
management applications such as HP OpenView, IBM Netcool, BMC Remedy, CA eHealth,
Lucent VitalSuite and many others.
The patent describes a network management interface system that receives network
management data from one or more connected management systems. Each connected system
provides a type of data from the network, such as device status data, event data, device
performance monitoring data, or other suitable data. enPortal receives and presents the
management data in a predetermined format, such as in one or more views, allowing data from
incompatible management systems to be presented in a single, user-viewable display.
Inventors include Ed Willhide, Nathaniel Cooper, Steven Hodecker and Hugh Warren.
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Founded in 1993, Edge Technologies, Inc. is a customer-focused software company whose
innovative solutions securely simplify highly complex problems. With field-proven expertise in
security, network management and mission-critical systems, Edge provides leading-edge
software products and enterprise services to many of the world's most secure and demanding
corporations and government agencies.