Dynamically autoconfigured feature browser for a communication terminal

Abstract

A feature presentation order for a feature browser display of a communication system terminal, e.g., a wireless terminal, is controlled in accordance with user-specific feature utilization history information. The utilization history information may include, e.g., a set of utilization counters for each of a number of features supported by the system, and the presentation order may be determined by sorting the utilization values of the corresponding features in an increasing or decreasing order. The utilization counters may be stored in a feature presentation management table that is implemented in the terminal and includes a feature identifier, a presentation order number and the utilization counter for each of the features. In a state-based embodiment, a different feature presentation management table is maintained for each of a set of designated terminal states, such as on hook, off hook and active. The feature browser utilizes the feature presentation management table(s) to determine the user-specific order in which features are to be presented on the terminal display. Advantageously, the invention allows, different user-specific utilization-based feature presentation orders to be provided to different users of the system.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.