Method for influencing a signaling procedure with the assistance of communication terminal equipment of a communication system

• US 5,467,387 A
• Filed: 12/06/1993
• Issued: 11/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Kienberger, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US08/161,409
• Time in Patent Office: 708 Days
• Field of Search: 379/355, 379/201, 379/388, 379/216, 379/88, 379/167
• US Class Current: 379/167.12
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/247 Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use user interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/04 for time-division multiplexing H04Q11/0001 takes precedence

Abstract

In a method for influencing a signaling procedure communication terminal equipment of a communication system, subscriber performance features are displayed on a display at the communication terminal equipment. The individual subscriber performance features are then optically marked by means of two navigation keys and the marking is controlled in a forward direction and in a reverse direction. A subscriber performance feature is selected by actuating an activation key that is located at the communication terminal equipment.

Claims

1. A method for influencing a signaling procedure using communication terminal equipment of a communication system, said communication terminal equipment having a numerical keyboard that controls call setup to other communication terminal equipment, and the communication system having a switching unit in which switching-oriented processes sequence, the method consisting of:

providing only a first navigation key, a second navigation key and an activation key for controlling key functions;

providing code functions of said key functions, said code functions being stored in a static key memory of the switching unit, said key functions corresponding to the subscriber performance features;

displaying the key functions on a display of a respective communication terminal equipment;

selecting and optical marking a respective key function in a forward direction on the display dependent on actuation of a first navigation key located at the respective communication terminal equipment and in a reverse direction on the display dependent on actuation of a second navigation key located at the respective communication terminal equipment;

for a present optically marked key function retrieving the corresponding code function from the static key memory and storing it in a dynamic key memory of the switching unit; and

actuating an activation key located at the respective communication terminal equipment to thereby transfer the corresponding code function stored in the dynamic key memory to a protocol handler, the protocol handler then supplying a logical key message indicative of the respective key function to the switching-oriented processes that are then activated, said key functions being controlled by only said first navigation key, said second navigation key and said activation key.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises selecting a plurality of key menus that have no logical relationship to one another by simultaneous actuation of the first and second navigation keys, and subsequently inputting a numeral characteristic of a respective key menu.