AT&T OneRing
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Platform Support
OneRing supplies a consistent product across a variety of user platforms. A consistent look is acheived as much as possible. But there are more important consistencies that are strictly preserved: the functions, their ordering, and especially the configuration and personal databases of the user.

Operating System
Using the desktop features of the OS, OneRing is available whenever the computer is in use.

example: A Win 95 version minimizes in System Tray, shows status in Tool Tips and launches services from TaskBar.

Mail Client
Deeply integrated with Mail Client, many OneRing functions are actually supplied by the host app - such as Address Book, Inbox, Mail Reader, etc.

example: Outlook version minimizes in Outlook Bar, shows status in Bar labels, launches services in Command Bar.

Browser
Integrated into browser, OneRing allows user to combine communications with Web usage.

example: IE 4+ version minimizes in Tool Bar, shows status and launches from Explorer Bar.

Web
A web version delivers totally personalized OneRing services to any online computer without software installation.

example: A Java version pops up as a toolbar in a thin independent frameless window, live and "outside" the browser.

Palmtop
Highly mobile, but poor in display, palmtops (especially wireless ones) are part of the ubiquity answer, at least now.

example: A Palm Pilot version

Pocket Phone
Phones with screens already supply much of the feature set and the integration. OneRing would serve to synch up the wireless world with the home and office deskbound life.

example: A Nokia version adapts existing conventions and adds new features through Text Messages and Folders.

Phone
Ugly as it is, OneRing and most of its services should be accessible through IVR/DTMF.

example: A POTS version employs both inbound and outbound calls to deliver different status messages.