Avaya 9640 Series - Terms Used in this Document

Terms Used in This Document
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Terms Used in This Document
Term Description
Action The Action element defines the actions associated with an Item. Each action is
triggered by an Event and has an attribute specifying what initiates it. An Action
Element can contain a sequence of individual actions.
Application Area The usable display area between the Prompt Line and Softkey labels.
Application Line The display area line that indicates application-specific messages.
Card An IPTML document contains zero or more IPTML Cards. Each Card consists
of Lists and Labels.
Deck A deck can be described as a stack of cards. When the browser downloads a
WML page, it really is downloading a deck of cards but only one card in the
deck is visible at a time.
DTD Document Type Definition. The DTD defines the names and contents of all
elements that permissible on a WML page, the order in which the elements
must appear, the contents of all elements, attributes and default values.
Elements Elements are the essential components that make up a single IPTML
document.
FLOW The flow type represents “card-level” information. In general, flow is used
anywhere general markup can be included.
Focus Since the phone has no mouse to navigate around the screen, the line buttons if
shown, or the OK button are used to select a particular line on the display.
Selecting a line serves to “to bring that line into focus.” Focusing on a line is
used to select a line for text entry or to select a line that contains a link to
another URL (card). Additionally, new titles can (not always) be presented to
the user as each line on the screen is individually brought “into focus” (selected
by pressing the Line or OK buttons).
H.323 A TCP/IP-based protocol for VoIP signaling.
HTML HyperText Markup Language is a text-based way of describing data for
transmission over the Internet HTML is usually used with larger, color displays.
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol, used to request and transmit pages on the World
Wide Web.
HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure. A secure version of HTTP over SSL
(Secure Socket Layer). Designed to provide encrypted communications for
handling secure transactions.
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