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Interactive display for use in a telephone terminal

  • US 5,381,461 A
  • Filed: 04/13/1993
  • Issued: 01/10/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An arrangement for displaying information messages in a display device at a telephone terminal, the arrangement comprising;

  • means for generating a set of information messages, the information messages varying in size of textual contents;

    means for partitioning character spaces in the display device into adjacent character sets, each character set including an allocated number of character spaces for displaying an information message;

    means for allocating available character spaces from adjacent character sets to a first character set having a specific information message for display when the textual contents of said specific information message exceeds the allocated number of character spaces in said first character set by a first predetermined number, said available character spaces being taken from information messages in said adjacent character sets that use less than the allocated number of character spaces in these character sets; and

    means for accessing a feature associated with the specific information message, said feature being accessed from a softkey button visually aligned on the telephone terminal and associated with said first character set.

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