NETWORK PRESENCE INDICATOR FOR COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT

摘要

To provide telephony-like interfaces to a computer network, a computer system has a visual display device that continually displays a network statu s icon indicating network status information. The icon can have segments corresponding to different communications environments, and the icon and the segments will change some characteristic, such as shape, size, or color, to indicate the presence of some network event or the status of some network parameter.< /SDOAB>