Communications system, article of manufacture and method related to modifying operation of a communications system
OwnerMichael J. Pallett, Alexandru Moraru +1inventors
InventorsMichael J. Pallett, Alexandru Moraru, Paul V. Vrana
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Abstract
The invention includes a method, an article of manufacture and a system related to controlling a communications system. A trigger signal and an action signal are associated, and when the trigger signal is provided, the action signal is provided.
Claims74
A method of controlling a communications system, comprising:
- providing a list of one or more action signal icons, each action signal icon corresponding to an action signal that may be provided;
- selecting at least one of the action signal icons to indicate a selected action signal;
- and
- associating the trigger signal with the selected action signal.
A method of controlling a communications system, the communications system having a controller capable of providing an action signal, the method comprising:
- providing a list of one or more trigger signal icons, each trigger signal icon corresponding to a trigger signal that may be provided;
- selecting at least one of the trigger signal icons to indicate a selected trigger signal;
- and
- associating the action signal with the selected trigger signal.
An article of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code instructions embodied therein to cause a computer to associate a trigger signal with an action signal, the instructions having:
- a computer readable program code module to provide a list of one or more action signal icons, each action signal icon corresponding to an action signal that may be provided;
- a computer readable program code module to provide a list of one or more trigger signal icons, each trigger signal icon corresponding to a trigger signal that may be provided;
- a computer readable program code module to receive a selection of one of the action signal icons;
- a computer readable program code module to receive a selection of one of the trigger signal icons;
- a computer readable program code module to associate the action signal corresponding to the selection of one of the action signal icons with a trigger signal corresponding to the selection of one of the action signal icons.
A communications system, comprising:
- a user communication device capable of providing a trigger signal;
- a communicating controller capable of responding to an action signal;
- a master controller in communication with the communicating controller and the user communication device, the master controller being controlled by computer executable code for selectively associating the trigger signal with the action signal so that the action signal is provided to the communicating controller if the trigger signal is provided by the user communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.