Enhanced contact navigator with interactive tabs for managing network events in real time
First Claim
1. An interactive information display for a communication terminal comprising:
- a tab navigation region;
one or more interactive tabs, each tab associated with an active or passive communication event at the communication terminal; and
a plurality of interactive icons associated with specific tabs;
wherein the icons are individually enabled in the tab region for each communication event that goes active and are individually disabled or terminated as each communication event is completed, and wherein interaction with one or more icons, some of which are dynamically generated alert icons, associated with a tab causes relevant data to be retrieved from at least one data source and displayed in one or more windows associated with the relevant tab.
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Abstract
An interactive information display for a communication terminal includes a tab navigation region; one or more interactive tabs, each tab associated with an active or passive communication event at the communication terminal, and a plurality of interactive icons associated with specific tabs. The interactive icons are individually enabled in the tabs for each communication event that goes active and are individually disabled or terminated as each communication event is completed, and wherein interaction with one or more icons, some of which are dynamically generated alert icons associated with a tab, causes relevant data to be retrieved from at least one data source and displayed in one or more windows associated with the relevant tab.
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27 Claims
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1. An interactive information display for a communication terminal comprising:
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a tab navigation region;
one or more interactive tabs, each tab associated with an active or passive communication event at the communication terminal; and
a plurality of interactive icons associated with specific tabs;
wherein the icons are individually enabled in the tab region for each communication event that goes active and are individually disabled or terminated as each communication event is completed, and wherein interaction with one or more icons, some of which are dynamically generated alert icons, associated with a tab causes relevant data to be retrieved from at least one data source and displayed in one or more windows associated with the relevant tab. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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12. A software/hardware system-architecture for dynamically updating an interactive information display for a communication terminal with relevant data, the display including a tab navigation region, a plurality of interactive tabs associated with active or passive communication events, and a plurality of interactive icons associated with specific ones of the interactive tabs comprising:
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a client application hosting the interactive information display, the client application hosted on the communication terminal;
a server application for retrieving the relevant data and serving the relevant data to the client application, the server application hosted on an intermediate server;
at least one data source for storing the relevant data; and
a data-packet-network connecting the communication terminal, the server and the at least one data source;
characterized in that requests initiated at the communication terminal by way of manipulating a tab or icon of the interactive display are sent over the data packet network to the server application whereupon the server application obtains data relevant to the request and dynamically updates the information display with the retrieved data.
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24. A method for providing real time update data to a communication terminal hosting an information display, the display including a tab navigation region, a plurality of interactive tabs associated with active or passive communication events, and a plurality of interactive icons associated with specific ones of the interactive tabs comprising steps of:
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(a) interacting with an interactive icon associated with an interactive tab;
(b) sending the results of interaction to an intermediate server application in the form of a request;
(c) searching for the relevant data identified in the request;
(d) retrieving the searched data;
(e) generating a dynamic view including the update data; and
(f) sending the dynamic view to the communication terminal to replace the current view. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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