A configuration management system which generates and updates its own real-time dynamic database for representing a system configuration. The configuration management system includes an user interface for receiving user input of free-hand graphic drawings representing system configuration changes....http://www.google.com/patents/US5706453?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5706453 - Intelligent real-time graphic-object to database linking-actuator for enabling intuitive on-screen changes and control of system configuration 
