Arrangement for delivering applications to a network enabled telephony device

A method of controlling a display screen and a user input interface of a network-enabled user interface device configured for network-based communications via an open protocol network, the method comprising:

• receiving application-based commands for execution of at least one of first operations, second operations, and third operations from at least one of a plurality of executable application operations, at least a first of the executable application operations in communication with the network-enabled user interface device via the open protocol network;
• first generating, by an interface controller, selected display elements based on the first operations and selected input operations elements based on the second operations;
• causing the display screen to display the selected display elements and the user input interface to execute the selected input operations elements;
• and
• second generating application-based responses based on supplied user inputs to the user input interface based on the selected input operations elements, and based on the third operations;
• wherein the interface controller further includes an extensible markup language (XML) module and a graphic user interface (GUI) elements table, the first generating step including:
• (1) identifying by the XML module the selected display elements to be displayed and input operations to be performed by the user input interface, based on parsing selected XML documents based on the application-based commands, the selected XML documents configured for specifying the first operations, the second operation and the third operations;
• and
• (2) outputting from the GUI elements table the selected display elements to be displayed on the display screen, and the selected input operations elements based on the identified input operations for execution of the selected input operations elements by the user input interface.

A computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions for controlling a display screen and a user input interface of a network-enabled user interface device, configured for network-based communications via an open protocol network, the sequences of instructions including instructions for performing the steps of:

• receiving application-based commands for execution of at least one of first operations, second operations, and third commands from at least one of a plurality of executable application operations, at least a first of the executable application operations in communication with the network-enabled user interface device via the open protocol network;
• first generating, by an interface controller, selected display elements based on the first operations and selected input operations elements based on the second operations;
• causing the display screen to display the selected display elements and the user input interface to execute the selected input operations elements;
• and
• second generating application-based responses based on supplied user inputs to the user input interface based on the selected input operations elements, and based on the third operations;
• wherein the interface controller further includes an extensible markup language (XML) module and a graphic user interface (GUI) elements table, the first generating step including:
• (1) identifying by the XML module the selected display elements to be displayed and input operations to be performed by the user input interface, based on parsing selected XML documents based on the application-based commands, the selected XML documents configured for specifying the first operations, the second operation and the third operations;
• and
• (2) outputting from the GUI elements table the selected display elements to be displayed on the display screen, and the selected input operations elements based on the identified input operations for execution of the selected input operations elements by the user input interface.

A network-enabled user interface device having a display screen and a user input interface and configured for network-based communications via an open protocol network, the device further comprising:

• means for receiving application-based commands for execution of at least one of first operations, second operations, and third operations from at least one of a plurality of executable application operations, at least a first of the executable application operations in communication with the network-enabled user interface device via the open protocol network;
• means for first generating, by an interface controller, selected display elements based on the first operations and selected input operations elements based on the second operations;
• means for causing the display screen to display the selected display elements and the user input interface to execute the selected input operations elements;
• and
• means for second generating application-based responses based on supplied user inputs to the user input interface based on the selected input operations elements, and based on the third operations;
• wherein the interface controller further includes an extensible markup language (XML) module and a graphic user interface (GUI) elements table, the means for first generating configured for:
• (1) identifying by the XML module the selected display elements to be displayed and input operations to be performed by the user input interface, based on parsing selected XML documents based on the application-based commands, the selected XML documents configured for specifying the first operations, the second operation and the third operations;
• and
• (2) outputting from the GUI elements table the selected display elements to be displayed on the display screen, and the selected input operations elements based on the identified input operations for execution of the selected input operations elements by the user input interface.