Telephonic communications – Substation or terminal circuitry – Visual signalling
Patent
1993-06-07
1995-06-13
Dwyer, James L.
Telephonic communications
Substation or terminal circuitry
Visual signalling
379387, 379201, 379210, 379215, H04M 102
Patent
active
054250978
ABSTRACT:
An arrangement where display control data which has been developed off-line, and which specifies the content and sequence of the display screens required to lead a customer through activation of a plurality of telephone features, is received and stored by an analog display station either at an initialization or a feature update of the station. The display control data is used by the station to communicate information relating to a particular feature to a user via the station display. The user inputs, e.g., keystrokes, received after each display screen, are stored by the station, and after the sequence has been completed, all such stored user inputs are rapidly transmitted to the switching system to effect the particular feature. Significantly, the switching system telephone feature software is not involved until after all stored user inputs are transmitted. Therefore, there is no need to modify existing software as long as the user inputs are not changed.
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AT&T Corp.
Dwyer James L.
Penrod Jack R.
Shehata M. W.
Watland Ross T.
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