Northern Telecom Limited

Michel J Brisebois

Kristin J Travis

Clifford D Read

Robert Barrie Turnbull

Andre J Robert

Bruce H Tsuji

William T Ross

Kenneth M Orford

William V Pezzullo

Joseph B Johns

Susan J McGarry

Piotr T Goszczynski

An interactive subscriber telephone terminal, comprising: a display screen; a plurality of temporarily definable response/data entry keys; and local control means for selectively causing the display screen and/or the response/data entry keys to be controlled by one of: remote signals transmitted to the terminal from a telephone switching office, and the local control means.

Screen-based telephone set for interactive enhanced telephony service

A method of operating a subscriber terminal to provide a flexible tapeless personalized auto-attendant telephone by means of measuring ring cadence of an incoming telephone call; and selecting one outgoing message in response to the ring cadence and playing it after a predetermined number of rings. The method also provides for the selection of group greetings and mailboxes automatically, for example, based on CLID and name match in a directory.

Flexible, tapeless, personalized auto-attendant telephone

A method of operating a microprocessor controlled telephone set having a microcomputer, user-data memory, and a plurality of function-keys, comprising the steps of: accessing said user data memory by defining a set of utility functions in a physical access module; translating a logical access request originated by a user of said telephone set to a corresponding utility function; and generating a logical access request in response to activation of a function-key.

Method of operating a microprocessor controlled telephone set

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Chelsea, Canada

Michel J Brisebois