Patent ID: 6903728
Filing Date: 2005-06-07
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a terminal in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating information representative of at least a portion of a state machine, wherein each of a plurality of states in the state machine specifies a set of labels for a corresponding plurality of soft-labeled keys of the terminal; downloading the information representative of the state machine from a switch of the system into the terminal; the state machine being configured to run substantially in its entirety within the terminal, independent of the switch, so as to control assignment of the sets of labels to the soft-labeled keys in response to user input without requiring further information from the switch, and being configured such that a transition between a given pair of states of the state machine in response to the user input automatically alters the assignment of the sets of labels to the soft-labeled keys and causes an identifier of a corresponding switch-based feature to be transmitted from the terminal to the switch; and processing the information in the terminal to generate a display including a given one of the sets of labels.