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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1993
Kimberly A Baals, Matawan, NJ (US);
Kathleen J Chylinski, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Darren A Kall, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Gary C Smith, Freehold, NJ (US);
Susan L Tuttle, East Windsor, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.