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.