Patent ID: 8019067

Claim:
An apparatus including a computing device, a storage medium, and a display, the storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to provide a user interface on the display, the user interface comprising: a telephone system user interface portion of the user interface configured for providing telephone system administration functionality for a telephone system including a plurality of telephones, wherein the telephone system is a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone system that includes the computing device, and wherein the telephone system is coupled to a local area network (LAN) that is coupled to an analog telephone adapter (ATA) that is coupled to a public telephone system, and wherein the ATA converts analog telephone signals from the public telephone system into a digital format compatible with the LAN and the telephone system; a telephone system icon that corresponds to the telephone system, wherein the telephone system icon is included in the telephone system user interface portion, and wherein the telephone system icon is configured for providing the telephone system administration functionality, and wherein the telephone system administration functionality is configured for adding telephones to the telephone system and for removing telephones from the telephone system; a telephone user interface portion of the user interface configured for providing telephone administration functionality for each of the plurality of telephones of the telephone system; and a telephone icon that is displayed in the telephone user interface portion and that corresponds to at least one telephone of the plurality of telephones, wherein the displayed telephone icon is configured for providing the telephone administration functionality for the at least one telephone to the administrator, and wherein the telephone administration functionality allows an administrator to configure the at least one telephone and to associate and disassociate one or more calling features with the at least one telephone, wherein the user interface and the telephone system user interface portion and the displayed telephone system icon and the telephone user interface portion and the telephone icon are all displayed on the display simultaneously.