## Terms Used in This Document

Term | Description
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ACM | Avaya Communication Manager. A member of a family of Avaya PBX’s providing advanced call features. Avaya IP Telephones register on or login to the ACM.
AIM | Access Key Input Mode. A new text entry mode that allows a user to access a particular URL by selecting a single dialpad key.
Alerts | An optional notification such as a series of ring pings to alert the user to an incoming Push Message.
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 | A WML card is similar to an HTML page, but WML delivers a set (deck) of closely related cards. The complete WML page comprises a collection of various cards, of which only one is visible on the browser at one time. As each of the cards is labeled by a name and ID, they can be linked together without difficulty. The WML card author determines the content of the card. The browser determines how this card will be displayed (rendered).
CDATA | Text, which can contain numeric or named character entities. CDATA, a DTD data type, is used only in attribute values.
CSS2 | Cascading Style Sheets Version 2.
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 WML 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).
Frame | The area in which the Web page is displayed.
href | The href attribute refers to either a relative or an absolute Uniform Resource Locator.
HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language is a text-based way of describing data for transmission over the Internet HTML is usually used with larger, color displays.
HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, used to request and transmit pages on the World Wide Web.
Interrupt Screen | A screen that automatically accompanies a standalone audio push. Interrupt screens provide the user with specific information about terminating the audio push.
IP | Internet Protocol – a suite of information exchanged message sets widely used for data transmission and increasingly used for the transmission of voice.
Link | The URI that is used to chain cards together.
mode | Push Priority type – normal or barge – to distinguish between emergency messages and ideal messages.
NMTOKEN | A name token, containing any mixture of name characters, as defined by the XML.
PBX | Private Branch Exchange – A generic name for a premise-based switch supporting telephony features owned by an enterprise.
PCDATA | Parsed CDATA. Text that can contain numeric or named character entities. This text can contain tags. PCDATA, a DTD data type, is used only in elements.
Prompt Line | The third line in the top display area. The current application uses the Prompt Line to provide context-specific prompts, hints, explanations, help, or similar information.
Push Agent or PA | The telephone software that is capable of receiving a Push Message from a server (Push Initiator).
Push Initiator or Push Server | A Web application that is capable of transmitting the Push Message to the Push Agent.
Push Content (PC) | A valid XML or a WML file that contains a <Response> tag as the root or a <WML> as the root. The file carries the actual information to be displayed or streamed on to an IP telephone.
Push Message (PM) | An XML message that contains a <Push> tag as the root. The Push Message uses a <go> tag to specify a URI to which the Push Agent can launch a request for Push Content.
Push State | When the telephone is in busy state such as an active phone call or user entering information in the Contacts Application.
Registration | The registration is a scheme of allowing an Avaya IP Telephone to authenticate itself with the Avaya Communication Manager. The Avaya Media Server switch supports registering and authenticating Avaya IP Telephones using the extension and password.
RTP Audio | An audio stream received from an application outside the context of a telephone call. The audio Push Message can be accompanied with an optional notification alert.
SUBSCRIBELIST | The subscription list for potential pushed content contains zero or more fully qualified URLs, separated by commas without any intervening spaces, up to 255 ASCII characters, including commas. The default is “” (Null).
Subscription Servers | A server or a database that stores the information for a Push-enabled IP telephone such as IP Address, Extension, MAC Address, etc.
Title Line | The second line in the top display area. Comprised of the current application title, subtitle (if applicable), and choice or Web paging indicators as applicable.
Top Line | The top area of the display is subdivided horizontally into a Top Line, a Title Line, and a Prompt Line, each extending across the entire width of the 318 pixel usable area for the 9620 and 9630 IP Telephones. The Top Line contains current status information. Examples of status information are the extension number, time and date, and icons for phone- or call-related data.
TPSLIST | List of Trusted Push Servers, contains one or more domains and paths in DNS format, separated by commas without any intervening spaces, up to 255 ASCII characters, including commas. The default is “” (Null)
Trusted Push Server (TPS) | Application Server with a URI that conforms to the security settings as established by the PUSH parameter in the script file. The Trusted Push Server and the Push Initiator can be the same entity.
Trusted Receive Server (TRS) | Application Server with a URI that conforms to the security settings as established by the PUSH parameter in the script file. The Trusted Push Server, the Push Initiator, and the Trusted Receive Server can be the same entity.
Type | Type specifies a tag or attribute.
User Agent | Software that interprets WML, WMLscript, WTAI and other forms of codes.
VDATA | A DTD data type representing a string that can contain variable references. This type is only used in attribute values.
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium.
WAP | Wireless Application Protocol. An open global standard for wireless solutions that includes WML.
WBMP | WBMP is a bitmap graphic format that is required for the integration of graphics into WML pages.
WML | Wireless Markup Language is a subset of XML, used by the Avaya IP Telephone Web browser to communicate with WML Servers.
WML homedeck | The WML start page, derived from Homepage.
WMLscript | A scripting language specifically designed for programming mobile devices. It is based on ECMAScript, but has been optimized for low bandwidth communication and limited processing power and memory.
WML tags | WML cards/deck are composed of a number of elements. Each element begins with a descriptive tag. Tags are indicated by a pair of angled brackets that start with the < character and end with the > character. The first element inside the angled brackets is the tag name.
WTA | Wireless Telephony Application(s). An extension of the WAE (Wireless Application Environment) that provides a set of interfaces to a mobile device’s telephony functionality.
WTAI | Wireless Telephony Application Interface is a set of interfaces that extend the WAE (Wireless Application Environment) to include telephony applications.
x-Push-Status | The Push Agent HTTP extension header. This extension is used by the Push Agent to send the Push Message status to the Push Initiator.
XML | eXtensible Markup Language. W3C's standard for Internet Markup Languages. WML is one of these languages.
xml:lang | The xml:lang attribute specifies the natural or formal language of an element or its attributes. This is a DTD term.