Susan M Tuttle, 6010 Lorraine Ct, Northport, NY 11768

6408191, Jun 18, 2002

Mar 16, 1999

09/270431

Harry Edward Blanchard - Rumson NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
David R. Dempski - Bricktown NJ
Steven M. Herbst - Chester NJ
Nicholas H. Katis - Aberdeen NJ
Susan A. Palermo - Oceanport NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04B 138

455566, 455412

An arrangement for displaying message screens on a telephone terminal provides easy access to messages received by the telephone terminal from a service provider. The arrangement allows users to seamlessly and intuitively view header and body information of a message without the need for any unnecessary key presses.

6415164, Jul 2, 2002

Mar 17, 1999

09/271036

Harry Edward Blanchard - Rumson NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
David R. Dempski - Bricktown NJ
Steven M. Herbst - Chester NJ
Nicholas H. Katis - Aberdeen NJ
Susan A. Palermo - Oceanport NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

Lucent Technologies, Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04B 138

455566, 4551584, 37938701, 379 9317

An arrangement for dynamically varying how space on a small display is allocated for presentation of various types of user information is provided. The arrangement optimizes utilization of space on small displays by dynamically allocating lines on the display for presentation of status or header-type information as well as menu item-type information. The arrangement configures the display such that lines therein are dedicatable in any combination to displaying these two types of information.

5381463, Jan 10, 1995

Apr 13, 1993

8/047585

Kimberly A. Baals - Matawan NJ
Edward W. Boakes - Middletown NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
Darren A. Kall - Highland Park NJ
Gary C. Smith - Freehold NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 1100

379 96

A locking arrangement is provided for limiting access to certain selected menu functions on a telephone terminal is provided. Although these functions are generally located in different sections of the menu hierarchy, each may be unlocked and relocked while a user remains in the same section of the menu hierarchy containing the selected function. For accessing the function, the user enter a password while located in the same section of the menu hierarchy as the function to be accessed. Once the password is entered, direct access to the selected menu function is permitted. The locking arrangement provides for the relocking of each of the selected functions automatically by the user simply exiting the accessed selected function.

5774540, Jun 30, 1998

Nov 15, 1995

8/559517

Joanne W. Davidson - Keansburg NJ
William F. Dudley - Jackson NJ
David A. Fishman - Lakewood NJ
David M. Gresham - East Hampton NY
Kenneth Kasiske - Jackson NJ
Michael L. Moroze - Broomfield CO
Elizabeth Bauer-Nilsen Sanders - Columbus OH
Alessandro A. Subrizi - San Francisco CA
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 100

379387

A user of a telephone terminal with an interactive display is provided complete access to all feature choices in a hierarchical menu through a minimum number of menu keys. These menu keys include a "Next" key, a "Back" key, a "Select" key and a "Home" key. These menu keys occupy minimal space on the housing of the telephone terminal, yet enable the user of the terminal to easily scroll to and select every feature in the interactive display. The user is able to quickly develop a mental model of the feature choices and easily navigate through these menu selections. Context-sensitive functionality also is provided for using the interactive display. As a user completes a command function, the feature choice presented to the user for this function is the one most likely to be accessed by the user, thus advantageously avoiding the necessity of having a dedicated key for allowing the user to select this feature choice.

5371788, Dec 6, 1994

Apr 13, 1993

8/046242

Kimberly A. Baals - Matawan NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
Darren A. Kall - Highland Park NJ
Gary C. Smith - Freehold NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 900

379396

An interactive display arrangement in a telephone terminal permits direct movement between unrelated child menu screens in a menu hierarchy. The arrangement is configured such that a user may advance directly from a displayed first child menu screen to an unrelated second child menu screen in the menu hierarchy, in order to perform specific tasks at the second child menu screen. Once the tasks at the second menu screen are completed or the user elects not to perform such tasks, the arrangement permits the user to return directly to the first child menu screen. The user of the telephone terminal thus is able to easily complete specific tasks at selected menu screens in the interactive display arrangement without the need for excessive movement in the menu hierarchy.

5381461, Jan 10, 1995

Apr 13, 1993

8/047584

Kimberly A. Baals - Matawan NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
Darren A. Kall - Highland Park NJ
Gary C. Smith - Freehold NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 1100
H04M 100

379 96

An arrangement for increasing the available character spaces for softkey label screen prompts in a small interactive display for use in a telephone terminal is provided. In a first configuration of the arrangement, available character spaces in the interactive display are partitioned into equal adjacent character sets with each character set having an allocated number of character spaces for displaying a softkey label. The telephone terminal is configured such that available character spaces in adjacent character sets are borrowed and used by a particular character set having a softkey label for display that exceeds the allocated number of character spaces in the particular character set. In a second configuration of the arrangement, a first character set is combined with an adjacent second character set for displaying the large softkey label. With the more descriptive softkey label screen prompts, a user of the interactive display arrangement is able to move among available menu screen in the interactive display arrangement in an easily understandable manner.

5392337, Feb 21, 1995

Jan 4, 1993

8/000428

Kimberly A. Baals - Matawan NJ
Kathleen J. Chylinski - Bridgewater NJ
Darren A. Kall - Highland Park NJ
Gary C. Smith - Freehold NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 127
G09G 320

379 96

A telephone terminal provides display screens of information messages which are selectively arranged to be time-specific in accordance with the complexity content of the information in each message. The amount of text in an information message, the complexity of words in the message and whether any user action should follow the text presented in the message are factors used in optimizing the duration of the display screens for the messages timed specific to their content. A plurality of user selectable options for the duration of the display screens also are available. These selectable options alter the duration time of all the display screens as a set. Within each selected set the variable time accorded each display screen, in accordance with the time-specfic information messages, provides for optimum viewing of each message by a user of the telephone terminal.

D364621, Nov 28, 1995

Dec 5, 1994

D/031718

John E. Clarke - Colts Neck NJ
David C. Danielson - Litchfield CT
Bernard A. DeSiena - Parlin NJ
James R. Graham - Bedminster NJ
Michael L. Moroze - New Egypt NJ
Daniel J. O'Donnell - Flanders NJ
Donald A. Palaski - Tinton Falls NJ
Dhirendra M. Patel - Jersey City NJ
Robert T. Saizan - Howell NJ
David C. Stowers - Nutley NJ
Susan L. Tuttle - East Windsor NJ

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

D14149