Sherri L Cocklin

US Patent:

53095090, May 3, 1994

Filed:

Jul 27, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/920089

Inventors:

Sherri L. Cocklin - Englishtown NJ
Thomas P. Orlofsky - Lincroft NJ
Tanya T. van der Heyde - Reynoldsburg OH

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 1700
H04M 342

US Classification:

379165

Abstract:

A graphical user interface workstation for use with a manager controller to control and implement changes to telephone sets of customer key telephone systems served by a telephone switching system. The workstation records high resolution graphical representations of each telephone set of a customer key telephone system and enables a customer user to select and display a recorded high resolution graphical representation of each telephone set of the customer user key telephone system. The workstation is interactive with the customer user and enables the customer user to selectively enter telephone lines, features and directory numbers changes into key button locations of a displayed telephone set graphical representation. User entered key button changes are converted into program instructions and transmitted to the manager controller to control the telephone switching system to assign the selected key button telephone lines, features and directory numbers entered onto the displayed key telephone set representations to corresponding telephone sets of the customer key telephone system.