Patent ID: 7509642

Claim:
In a communications-networking environment, a method for automatically presenting the progress of a transaction, comprising: receiving a transaction that requires completing one or more substeps wherein a substep is a process to be performed in an execution of the transaction, wherein receiving the transaction includes, without user interaction, suspending user control until said transaction is received but prior to when said transaction is completed, and wherein the transaction includes two or more of the following: modifying call-routing instructions associated with a telecommunications network; implementing a database update; and implementing a LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide) update; and without user interaction, communicating to one or more display devices one or more indications respectively related to said one or more substeps as said one or more substeps are performed wherein communicating to the one or more display devices comprises communicating the one or more indications to a broadcasting device and sending the one or more indications from the broadcasting device to the one or more display devices.