System and method for determining the status of a telephone in a packet switched network
OwnerElliott Light, Jon Robertsinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for determining the status of a telephone in a packet switched network. The system and method provides for the telephone status to be determined by a status monitoring device or, where the network is a cable network and the equipment comprises a telephone, by a subscriber cable interface device. The equipment status file is accessible over a network, such as the Internet, by status accessing device. The status file provides status information indicative of the telephone for which the status is being determined.
Claims36
A system for communicating a status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “PSN”) comprising:
- the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via PSN;
- a telephone status monitor connected so as to monitor a telephone status of the telephone;
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- a telephone status file connected to the telephone status monitor for receiving the telephone status of the telephone, and wherein the telephone status file is accessible by a status accessing device via a status network.
A system for obtaining the status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “PSN”) comprising:
- the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN;
- a status monitoring device adapted to provide output signals indicative of the status of the telephone;
- a first network connected to the status monitoring device for receiving the output signals from the telephone;
- a status file connected to the first network for receiving the output signals from the telephone over the first network;
- a second network connected to the status file;
- a status accessing device connected to the second network, the status accessing device adapted to access the status file over the second network to convey the status of the telephone to a user of the status accessing device.
A method for communicating a status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “PSN”) comprising:
- monitoring a telephone status of the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN;
- and
- sending the telephone status to a telephone status file,
- wherein the telephone status file is accessible by a status accessing device via a status network.
A method for obtaining the status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “PSN”) comprising:
- monitoring a telephone status of the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN;
- sending the telephone status to a telephone status file via a first network;
- accessing the telephone status file via a second network using a status accessing device connected to the second network, the status accessing device adapted to convey the status of the telephone to a user of the status accessing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.