Telephony terminal
AssigneeCallahan Cellular L.L.C.
InventorsSatoru Yukie, Mike Kwon, Craig M. Hagopian, Kazuhiko Shirai
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a phone connection configured to connect to an analog telephone;
- a network connection configured to connect to a network that provides access to a public switched telephone network and to a data network;
- and
- a controller connected to the phone connection and the network connection,
- wherein the controller is configured to
- provide a group of services comprising
- a voice over internet protocol service that converts a voice signal received over the phone connection to an internet protocol packet containing voice data and sends the internet protocol packet to the network connection,
- a public switched telephone network service, and
- a broadband service, and
- in response to receiving header data over the phone connection, initiate a service, of the group of services, specified by the header data.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a telephony terminal, information from an analog telephone via a phone connection of the telephony terminal;
- in response to receiving the information, initiating a service, of a set of services supported by the telephony terminal, specified by header data in the information;
- preparing, by the telephony terminal, intermediate information based, at least in part, on the information according to the service specified by the header data in the information, the set of services comprising:
- a voice over internet protocol service that converts a voice signal received at the phone connection to an internet protocol packet containing voice data and sends the internet protocol packet to a network connection of the telephony terminal,
- a public switched telephone network service, and
- a broadband service;
- preparing, by the telephony terminal, network data based on the intermediate information according to a network protocol of a network connected to the network connection, wherein the network provides access to a public switched telephone network and a data network;
- and
- sending, by the telephony terminal, the network data to the network connection.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause an apparatus comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- in response to receipt of information from an analog telephone via a phone connection of the apparatus, initiating a service, specified by header data included in the information, from a set of services supported by the apparatus;
- preparing intermediate information based, at least in part, on the information according to the service specified by the header data included in the information, the set of services comprising:
- a voice over internet protocol service that converts a voice signal received over the phone connection to an internet protocol packet containing voice data and sends the internet protocol packet to a network connection of the apparatus,
- a public switched telephone network service, and
- a broadband service;
- preparing network data based on the intermediate information according to a network protocol of a network connected to the network connection of the apparatus, wherein the network provides access to a public switched telephone network and a data network;
- and
- sending the network data to the network connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.