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Method for enabling a user interface for a network telephone

  • US 7,319,743 B1
  • Filed: 01/10/2000
  • Issued: 01/15/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of displaying a soft key label set on a telephone having a display monitor, the method comprising:

  • storing a plurality of soft key label sets wherein one of the plurality of the soft key label sets has a function in a particular context and includes a text string;

    retrieving the one of the plurality of the soft key label sets based on the particular context from a call manager object;

    displaying the one of the plurality of the soft key label sets on the display such that the text string corresponds to a physical button on the telephone;

    changing the one of the plurality of the soft key label sets to another of the plurality of the soft key label sets when the context changes;

    using an index to retrieve a soft key label set wherein a value for the index is determined based on the particular context; and

    invalidating one or more text strings in said soft key label set using a valid mask associated with the index,wherein, while the one of the plurality of the soft key label sets is being changed, the physical button is deactivated.

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