Patent ID: 6084944
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A system, operational in a test facility, for dynamically representing a visual image of a voice terminal that is connected to a test port, having a plurality of terminals, of said test facility, comprising:means for determining an identity of said voice terminal that is connected to said test port, comprisingmeans for applying a single set of low potential signals to at least two of said plurality of terminals of said test port,means for monitoring at least one of said plurality of terminals of said test port to measure signals appearing thereon in response to application of said single set of low potential signals,means for determining, in response to said single set of low potential signals and said measured signals, an identity of one of a plurality of voice terminal types that is connected to said test port;means for generating on a monitor device an image that represents said voice terminal; andmeans, responsive to signals received from said voice terminal, for displaying on said image a present state of said voice terminal as defined by said signals.