Patent
1989-07-20
1992-05-26
Herndon, Heather R.
395154, G06F 1546
Patent
active
051173727
ABSTRACT:
Telecommunication terminal administration is facilitated by a graphical user interface which uses an on-screen graphical display of a representation of a terminal including its actuators and a display of a list of telecommunications functions assignable to the actuators, a pointing device such as a mouse to select representations of actuators and functions, and a single assigning, or mapping, operating function "copy from-modify-replace to" to assign selected functions to selected actuators of the terminal whose representation is displayed and to assign terminals to locations, (e.g., extension lines and numbers), as well as to modify values of function attributes. The assignments are preserved for future use in the telecommunications system, so that when an actuator to which a function was assigned is actuated on the terminal whose graphical representation was displayed and which is located at its assigned location, the assigned telecommunications function is performed.
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
Herndon Heather R.
Volejnicek David
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