Message status display
AssigneeVideo Road Digital Inc.
InventorsAlbert Alloul, Allan Brown
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Abstract
An external module mountable to a user device such as a computer monitor displays the status of received messages from a number of message receiving systems without requiring integration of the message receiving systems. Three or more indicators are provided in a substantially continuous strip and a state of the indicators indicates a status of incoming messages received corresponding to each of the message receiving systems. An interface software module may be used to check the creation of new files in directories for incoming messages used by each of the message receiving means to obtain the data concerning receipt of incoming messages. A dongle may be used to connect the display to a computer without taking up an output port.
Claims4
A message status display system comprising:
- means for interfacing with a plurality of message receiving means to obtain data concerning receipt of incoming messages;
- means for reading said data and generating a display state signal;
- and
- display means receiving said display state signal for displaying a status of said incoming messages received at a plurality of message receiving means wherein said display means is located externally of a screen monitor;
- and further comprising
- a housing supporting said display means;
- mounting means for mounting said housing to said screen monitor;
- and
- connection means for transmitting said display state signal from a user device to said display means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.