Inventors:
Richard Allen Dunlap - Euless TX
Erich Ian Domingo - Hayward CA
Peter James Coughlan - Palo Alto CA
Steven Vassallo - Palo Alto CA
Daniel James Stillion - Mountain View CA
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
H04M 156
US Classification:
37914217, 37914201, 37914204, 455566
Abstract:
An interactive user interface displayed on a monitor as part of a telephone is disclosed. The interactive user interface allows a user to easily use basic and advanced telephony functions, telephony-related services, such as accessing phone directories and voice mail, and non-telephony services. These non-telephony services can include any information deliverable over, for example, TCP/IP or DHCP, and can include information such as stock prices, weather, sports data, and so on, typically from third-party services. It can also include intra-company information such as meeting schedules, conference room bookings, cafeteria menus, and so on. A user can also pull up context-sensitive âhelpâ information on the display at any time to learn more about a particular mode, option, or feature.