Patent ID: 6757372
Filing Date: 2004-06-29
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A telephone having an interactive user interface displayed on a monitor connected with the telephone, the user interface presenting an active mode of a plurality of modes of use on the telephone, the user interface comprising:a header segment for displaying a primary directory number assigned to the telephone; a lines segment for displaying context-sensitive data wherein the data can correspond to one or more first user-input mechanism; a command selection segment for displaying data related to options available to a user wherein the options are context-sensitive and can correspond to one or more second user-input mechanisms; and a status segment for displaying data related to one of the options displayed in the command selection segment and the context-sensitive data in the lines segment; wherein the interactive user interface allows a user to navigate through the plurality of modes, each one of the modes having a plurality of options, accessible on the telephone; wherein the context-sensitive data for each first user-input mechanism has a type that varies according to which mode is currently selected by the user; wherein the type can vary between a phone number and a message; wherein in at least one of the modes, the interactive interface allows the context-sensitive data displayed in the lines segment to contain a plurality of dialing data for placing a plurality of calls and at least one of the first user-input mechanisms corresponds to a single one of the dialing data; and wherein different ones of the first user-input mechanisms correspond to different ones of the plurality of dialing data displayed in the lines segment in one of the plurality of modes, and correspond to different ones of a plurality of network connection data displayed in the lines segment in another of the plurality of modes.