Method for displaying performance feature names at a communication terminal equipment
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHans-Dieter Hecker, Gisela Wagner
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Abstract
Proceeding from a communication terminal equipment (EGD) whereat performance feature names (LMB) can be displayed menu-controlled in order to provide the user with an offering of the available performance features for a potential selection or, respectively, activation of one of these, a check of the authorization of the user for the individual performance features is provided. To that end, a respective performance feature name (LMB) is only communicated to the communication terminal equipment (EGD) for display thereat when the appertaining performance feature is noted as available in an authorization table (GWBP) allocated to the user.
Claims8
A method for obtaining performance feature names at a communication terminal, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a display message from the communication terminal, after a user requests performance features to be displayed;
- storing a performance feature table containing entries each of which identifies a performance feature by a corresponding identifier and a corresponding name, the performance feature table being generic for a plurality of communication terminals;
- consulting an authorization table to determine which performance features are authorized for the communication terminal, the authorization table containing entries each of which identifies a performance feature by the corresponding identifier and identifies authorization status for the communications terminal, the authorization table being specific for the communications terminal;
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- transmitting names of performance features to the communications terminal for the performance features which are authorized for the communications terminal.
A method for simulation of a non-display enabled communication terminal equipment, by a display-enabled communication terminal equipment connected to a subscriber line, of selection of performance features consistent with selection of performance features by a non-display enabled communication terminal equipment, comprising:
- intercepting, by a user interface module of a communication system, a request for a selected performance feature in a display list of the display-enabled communication terminal equipment;
- matching the selected performance feature with a performance feature name in a user interface module table;
- sending a line number in the user interface module table to a data base of the communication system, wherein the line number in the user interface module table corresponds to a line number of an authorization table in the data base, identifying the selected performance feature;
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- activating the performance feature for the subscriber line if the authorization table indicates that the performance feature is available.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.