Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
1997-08-22
2001-08-14
Bayerl, Raymond J. (Department: 2173)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C345S215000, C345S215000, C345S215000, C345S960000, C345S950000, C379S267000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06275230
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to a method for developing graphical user interfaces for CTI appliactions.
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) enables a computer system to control a telephony system and a telephony system to access a computer system. While the existing CTI development methods are often robust, a shortcoming of the existing CTI development methods is that it is difficult to use them to develop end user CTI interfaces, because they require developers and integrators to understand the details of how a particular telephony system works internally. A main contributing reason to such a shortcoming is the lack of an accepted standard for telephony integration, which has led to the development of several proprietary and non-proprietary interfaces to the various telephony hardware vendor platforms.
Therefore, there is a need to provide a method for designing CTI solutions, which is easy to use by CTI system developers and integrators.
There has been another need to provide a method for designing CTI solutions, without requiring the knowledge of details of telephony systems, thus simplifying and improving the efficiency of CTI application development and maintenance.
The present invention meets these needs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In one aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling a communication system. The method comprises the steps of:
(a) creating an object image symbol for controlling and responding to the communication system;
(b) defining a behavior for said created object image symbol; and
(c) based on said defined behavior, dynamically enabling and disabling said object image symbol in response to changes of operational status of the communication system.
In another aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling a communication system. The method comprises the steps of:
(a) creating an object image symbol for controlling and responding to the communication system;
(b) defining a behavior for said created object image symbol; and
(c) based on said defined behavior, initiating a control over the communication system by activating said object image symbol.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description and accompanying drawings.
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Ingrassia, Jr. Michael I.
Rios Alexander
Shelton James A.
Yaggie John A.
Bautista X. L.
Bayerl Raymond J.
Lowe Hauptman Gopstein Gilman & Berner LLP
NCR Corporation
Tuo Ying
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