VoIP (voice over internet protocol)-compliant cable modem
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorTetsuro Furuta
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Abstract
A cable modem has functions of packetizing a voice signal and transmitting/receiving the packetized voice signal to/from a connected communication device over an IP network. The cable modem includes a communication unit which transmits/receives a signal over the IP network, a detection unit which detects information on the connected communication device from the signal received by the communication unit, and a display unit which displays the information on the connected communication device included in the signal detected by the detection unit.
Claims7
A cable modem having functions of packetizing a voice signal and transmitting/receiving the packetized voice signal to/from a connected communication device over an IP network, comprising:
- a communication unit which transmits/receives a signal over the IP network;
- a detection unit which detects information on the connected communication device from the signal received by the communication unit;
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- a display unit which displays the information on the connected communication device included in the signal detected by the detection unit.
A cable modem having functions of packetizing a voice signal and transmitting/receiving the packetized voice signal to/from a connected communication device over an IP network, comprising:
- a tuner which transmits/receives a packet signal over the IP network;
- a non-volatile memory;
- a controller which detects, from the packet signal received by the tuner, a Caller ID signal including data indicative of a telephone number of the connected communication device, and stores the data included in the Caller ID signal into the non-volatile memory;
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- a display unit which displays the data stored in the non-volatile memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.