US 12,278,923 B1Granted

Customized data communication control for data communication service systems using high-level programming

Assignee8x8, Inc.

InventorZhishen Liu

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Abstract

Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to customized control, for example, including customized communication lists, for data communications systems using high-level programming. According to a specific example, a data communications server is configured to interface with a remotely-situated client entity using a first programming language. The data communications server includes a communication control engine that is configured to provide a private branch exchange (PBX) or PBX functions from a Cloud-based service platform for the client entity. The communication control engine is to identify client-specific sets of control data derived from instructions written in a second programming language that is compatible with the first programming language, and to control communication routing by determining whether and/or how to route incoming data communications in response to the client-specific sets of control data.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

via a data communications server communicating over a wideband network, using instructions documented or provided in a first programming language to provide data communications services via a platform as a service (PaaS) from which a user can experience communication routing on behalf of at least one client entity associated with the user and wherein the PaaS provides data communication routing control services and is configured to provide private branch exchange (PBX) functions;
and
in response to the data communications server being in receipt of incoming data communications directed to a particular client entity, identifying client-specific sets of control data which are derived from instructions written in a second programming language compatible with the first programming language, which are provided from a communication endpoint operated on behalf of the particular client entity, and which are to facilitate customized use of the data communications server by the particular client entity and which are to indicate a limited set of communication routing and control operations, including how to process certain of the incoming data communications, conveyed in the client-specific sets of control data.

A system comprising:

a data communications server to use programming instructions documented via a first programming language for communicating over a wideband network, and providing data communications services via a platform as a service (PaaS) from which a user can experience communication routing on behalf of a particular client entity associated with the user and wherein the PaaS is to provide data communication routing control services and private branch exchange (PBX) functions;
and
wherein the data communications server is to identify, in response to the data communications server being in receipt of incoming data communications directed to the particular client entity, client-specific sets of control data which are derived from instructions written in a second programming language compatible with the first programming language, which are provided from a communication endpoint operated on behalf of the particular client entity, and which are to facilitate customized use of the data communications server by the particular client entity indicating a limited set of communication routing and control operations, including how to process certain of the incoming data communications, conveyed in the client-specific sets of control data.

A computer-implemented method for use with a system including a data communications server operating via programming instructions documented via a first programming language for providing data communications services via a platform as a service (PaaS) from which a user can experience communication routing on behalf of a particular client entity associated with the user and wherein the PaaS provides data communication routing control services and private branch exchange (PBX) functions, the method comprising:

identifying, in response to the data communications server receiving incoming data communications directed to the particular client entity, client-specific sets of control data which are
derived from instructions written in a second programming language compatible with the first programming language, and
provided from a communication endpoint operated on behalf of the particular client entity;
and
customizing the data communications server, on behalf of the particular client entity and in response to the client-specific sets of control data, by indicating a limited set of communication routing and control operations including how to process certain of the incoming data communications, conveyed in the client-specific sets of control data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/948,612Filed 20 Sep 2022 · continuation
Priority: 23 Jun 2017
Granted: 15 Apr 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04M 1/2535
Telephone sets using digital voice transmission: adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network (Voice over Internet…
H04M 3/42314
Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers: in private branch exchanges
G06F 8/31
Creation or generation of source code: programming languages or programming paradigms
H04L 63/0227
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: filtering policies

Family

Application62/523,958Us provisional application · filed 23 Jun 2017
Application16/013,556Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Jun 2018
Application16/580,171Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2019
US 10,425,531 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2019
Application17/108,189Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Dec 2020
US 10,855,839 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Dec 2020
US 11,451,662 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Sep 2022
US 12,278,923 B1This patent

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