User interface and system to facilitate telephone circuit maintenance and testing
AssigneeSouthwestern Bell Telephone Company
InventorsWilliam R. Jones, Michael D. Cheaney, Rod A. Opel
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Abstract
An apparatus that integrates a plurality of disparate systems. a common control interface is presented to a user of the apparatus. The user employs an inputting device to enter data required by the plurality of disparate systems. The inputted data is inputted to the common interface. The data is then transferred from the common control interface to at least one of the plurality of disparate systems.
Claims19
An apparatus for integrating a plurality of disparate systems, comprising:
- a common control interface that provides a different appropriate interface for each of the plurality of disparate systems;
- an inputting device for entering data required by said plurality of disparate systems into said common interface;
- and
- a system that formats and transfers said data from said common control interface to at least one system of said plurality of disparate systems;
- wherein
- said common control interface interoperates with the plurality of disparate system types and software applications;
- said common control interface monitors said systems for operational data at varying levels of functionality;
- and said common control interface simultaneously integrates the plurality of disparate systems and software applications.
An apparatus for telephone circuit maintenance and testing, comprising:
- a control interface in which a user enters data, the control interface providing a different appropriate interface for each of the plurality of disparate systems;
- a telephone circuit maintenance and testing interface that receives data from said control interface;
- and
- a tester, controlled by said telephone circuit maintenance and testing interface, that tests predetermined telephone parameters;
- wherein
- said tester permits parallel asynchronous testing of system and software applications connected to said control interface.
The apparatus of claim 9, wherein said tester performs testing of ISDN switches.
A user interface for use with a plurality of telephone circuit maintenance and testing systems, comprising:
- a menu bar, which contains a plurality of menus required by a user to log on the system, log off the system, and handle routine setup parameters for different types of systems and software applications;
- a toolbar from which a plurality of screens can be called to input data required for a trouble ticket, said data being used for maintenance analysis by an automated test tool that performs an automated test on at least one parameter of a telephone system, at least one of the screens permitting the user to specify circuits and ticket numbers, said plurality of screens handling the plurality of telephone circuit maintenance and testing systems and software applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.