PBX with short messaging service on a telephone display
AssigneeTadiran Telecom Business Systems Ltd.
InventorAharon Neuman
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for sending and displaying short messages from data network users which are linked to a telephonic network. The telephonic network comprises telephones, each with a display for visually displaying short messages to subscribers of the telephonic network. The apparatus holds a dialogue between the data network users and a software agent embedded in the telephonic network. The dialogue provides the telephonic network the content, the sender ID and the address information of each short message, stores the content and address information in a database, and displays the content of the messages on the telephone display of each destined subscriber.
Claims20
A method for sending and displaying short messages from at least one data network user to at least one subscriber of a telephonic network, said telephonic network having at least one telephone, said at least one telephone having a display for visually displaying said short messages.
Apparatus for receiving and displaying short messages from at least one data network user to at least one telephone of a telephonic network, said at least one telephone having a display for visually displaying said short messages, in which, said at least one telephone is connected to a PBX, which comprises:
- circuitry and software for receiving a message from said data network users, and circuitry for displaying the content of said messages on the telephone display of each destined subscriber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.