ER5 System Documentation Supplement Glossary


Index S

Term Topic Meaning See Also

server

ETel Core API

A program that performs services for another program.

 

Server-side MTM

 

A component that provides the interaction between the internal data representation of message data, and the transport components for a particular messaging protocol.

 

service

 

A Message Server abstraction that collects settings information—usually to set up communication protocols, such as ISP settings—and specific folders for a given single instance of an MTM.

 

session alarm

Reference

Type of alarm which is handled on behalf of a session with the alarm server. They serve the requirements of PIM applications.

Timed alarm, untimed alarm, orphan alarm, clock alarm, snoozed alarm, PIM

session cleanup stack

 

Specialised cleanup stack for automatic cleanup of Message Server entries in error conditions.

 

session observer

 

A class implemented by a messaging client that is notified of events such as shutdown warnings, new message arrival, and registration of new MTMs

 

short network name

ETel Basic GSM API

Networks have both short and long names. In EPOC the short name is 8 characters long. The long network name is used by preference, however the short name may be used instead — if the display is small

long network name

SIM

ETel Basic GSM API

Subscriber Identity Module

 

SMS

 

Short Message System. A protocol, defined within the GSM standard, which allows point-to-point transmission of short messages. ‘Short’ means 140 bytes, or 160 characters with the special 7-bit SMS character set. Can also be used to transmit up to 31k of binary or text data by concatenating messages.

 

SMS message reference number

ETel Basic GSM API

A reference number assigned by the network to each SMS message from a phone. The number is incremented for each new SMS message, and allows clients to relate status report (e.g. error) messages to the sent messages.

 

SMTP

 

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The commonest protocol employed for transferring Internet mail messages from the client to the server.

 

snoozed alarm

Reference

A type of orphan alarm in which the alarm is active, but quiescent for a certain period.

All snoozed alarms are also orphaned.

Timed alarm, untimed alarm, orphan alarm, clock alarm

speaker control

ETel Core API

Determines modem modes when speaker is on. Eg when carrier is active, inactive, on when dialling etc. See RCall::TMonitorSpeakerControl.

speaker volume

speaker volume

ETel Core API

If the speaker is active, defines the modem volume level. See RCall::TMonitorSpeakerVolume

speaker control

SS string

ETel Basic GSM API

Supplementary Service string. Characters added to a phone number to control network behaviour. For example, to enable/disable caller ID.

 

sub-entity

Reference

A parser entity which is embedded in another entity. For example, vEvents and vTodos are sub-entities.

entity, agent, vEvent, vTodo