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Monitor screen graphic value indicator system
Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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Filing: 1994-11-04
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Granted: 1995-10-31
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Expires: 2014-11-04
Abstract
Abstract An visual interface for a graphic display including a plurality of scales with respective points having values showing a graph, waveform, or chart. A user may interactively move throughout the graph, waveform, or graph with an indicator line that is connected from a point on each graph, chart, or waveform to a respective scale. A digital numeric value associated with each point and having greater resolution than the scale is displayed in a respective window. Windows are simultaneously displayed and the numeric values are updated dynamically with interactive movement from the user. Data shown in the graph, waveform, or chart may involve traffic displays of a telephone switch.
Inventors
- 👤 Stephanie Diec
- 👤 Lars G. Karlsson
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 17:17
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/22; H04M3/36; G; G06; G06F; G06F3/00; G06F3/01; G06F3/03; G06F3/033
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
221 words
A visual display interface, said visual display interface presenting for simultaneous user viewing a plurality of graphical pictures, each presented graphical picture exhibiting a relationship between two sets of numbers as a chart, graph or waveform defined by a plurality of points, said visual display interface comprising: a plurality of presented scales, each scale presented for user viewing in association with one of the presented graphical pictures, each of said plurality of points having a numerical value with respect to at least one of the presented scales; an indicator line presented for user viewing and manipulation, said indicator line movable along each of the presented scales to visually indicate on the scales the numerical value of a selected point in each of the graphical pictures by interconnecting the selected point on the picture and at least one of said scales; and a plurality of windows corresponding in number to the plurality of scales, each window presented for user viewing at a location on the visual display interface different from a location for the scales, each of said windows displaying, in addition to any visual indication provided by the scales themselves, the numerical value of the selected point on a corresponding one of the graphical pictures with a greater resolution than that visually indicated by the value indicator line on the scales.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
221 words
A visual display interface, said visual display interface presenting for simultaneous user viewing a plurality of graphical pictures, each presented graphical picture exhibiting a relationship between two sets of numbers as a chart, graph or waveform defined by a plurality of points, said visual display interface comprising: a plurality of presented scales, each scale presented for user viewing in association with one of the presented graphical pictures, each of said plurality of points having a numerical value with respect to at least one of the presented scales; an indicator line presented for user viewing and manipulation, said indicator line movable along each of the presented scales to visually indicate on the scales the numerical value of a selected point in each of the graphical pictures by interconnecting the selected point on the picture and at least one of said scales; and a plurality of windows corresponding in number to the plurality of scales, each window presented for user viewing at a location on the visual display interface different from a location for the scales, each of said windows displaying, in addition to any visual indication provided by the scales themselves, the numerical value of the selected point on a corresponding one of the graphical pictures with a greater resolution than that visually indicated by the value indicator line on the scales.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
73 words
The visual display interface as in claim 1 wherein the chart, graph or waveform of each of the graphical pictures is displayed in relation to a Cartesian Coordinate system having an x-axis defined by one set of the two sets of numbers and a y-axis defined by another set of the two sets of numbers, with each one of said presented scales oriented parallel to either the x- or y-axis of said system.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
62 words
The visual display interface as in claim 1 further including means responsive to user input for moving the value indicator line along the scales to identify, both on the scales and in the windows, and further updated and identified as the value indicator line moves in response to user input, the numerical value of any of the points of the graphical pictures.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
51 words
The visual display interface as in claim 1 further including: means for connecting the visual display interface to a telephone switch; and means for monitoring communications traffic in the telephone switch, wherein the chart, graph or waveform presents data relating to the monitored communications traffic being handled by the telephone switch.
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