System and method for facilitating IP telephony applications
OwnerTimothy J. Van Hammond, John H. Ptacek +1inventors
InventorsTimothy J. Van Hammond, John H. Ptacek, Jeffrey P. Lang
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Abstract
A system and method enabling designers to create IP telephony applications without the need for the designers or IP telephone users to understand either the native data format used by the IP telephones or the programming language used to construct the IP telephony applications.
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A Software implementation allowing designers to construct IP telephony applications accessible and employable by users of IP telephones or IP telephone emulators, comprising:
- Software enabling the designers to construct the IP telephony applications by manipulating IP telephony objects on a graphical user interface to create data in a native format used for display of information to the users of the IP telephones or the IP telephone emulators, wherein the designers and the users are not required to understand either the native data format or programming language used to construct the IP telephony applications.
Software enabling IP telephony applications to be developed from IP telephony objects, permitting users of IP telephones or IP telephone emulators to access and employ the IP telephony applications, comprising:
- Software enabling the designers to construct the IP telephony applications by manipulating IP telephony objects to create machine-readable data utilized by IP telephones to convey information to the users, wherein the designers and the users are not required to understand the programming language in order to develop and use the IP telephony applications.
A method allowing a designer to construct an IP telephony application accessible and employable by users of IP telephones or IP telephone emulators, comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of the IP telephones or IP telephone emulators with an associated first visual display;
- providing the designer with one or more computers having at least a second visual display;
- the designer constructing the IP telephony application using Software enabling the designer to visually manipulate elements on a graphical user interface associated with the at least second visual display to create data in a native format used for display of information by the IP telephones to the users;
- wherein use of the Software permits the designer to construct the IP telephony application and the users to use an IP telephone or IP telephone emulator running the IP telephony application without the need for either the designer or the users to understand either the native data format used by the IP telephone or IP telephone emulator or programming language used to construct the IP telephony application.
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