Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for receiving, by a telephone device, data of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menu tree that is made available to the telephone device by a server of a remote database, or in the alternative, is made dynamically available to the telephone device. In an embodiment, an IVR menu tree may include menu tags according to a menu description protocol and may be delivered as the IVR menu tree is updated so that the telephone device receives an up-to-date menu tree automatically. The received IVR menu tree may be visually output to the display screen of the telephone device. Accordingly, the received IVR menu tree can be visual menu output rendered as a menu tree display and configured to be navigable on the display screen by a user input device, such as a joy stick or key pad.

Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for receiving, by a telephone device, data of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menu tree that is made available to the telephone device by a server of a remote database, or in the alternative, is made dynamically available to the telephone device. In an embodiment, an IVR menu tree may include menu tags according to a menu description protocol and may be delivered as the IVR menu tree is updated so that the telephone device receives an up-to-date menu tree automatically. The received IVR menu tree may be visually output to the display screen of the telephone device. Accordingly, the received IVR menu tree can be visual menu output rendered as a menu tree display and configured to be navigable on the display screen by a user input device, such as a joy stick or key pad.

Abstract: A method (500, 600), and apparatus (110, 120) is provided for establishing a connection (111) between a terminal equipment TE (110) and mobile terminal MT (120). In one embodiment a control path is established between the MT and the TE over respective interfaces prior to a context activation associated with a dial-up request for an access session with a network (210). A command (401) is issued from the TE over the control path to set information related to the context activation. The information is preferably encoded and transferred over the control path in a native transfer mode and decoded prior to an issuance of the dial up request.