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US 2006/0221947 A1Published application
Multiple IP identities for end user telephony devices
OwnerMark Baker, Gregory Freitag +3inventors
InventorsMark Baker, Gregory Freitag, Gerald Pfleging, George Wilkin, David Zahn
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Abstract
An apparatus in one example comprises an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses, wherein at least first and second sets of configuration parameters associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses are stored in the telephone set, and one of the first and second sets of configuration parameters is applied to a selected telephone line.
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An apparatus comprising:
- an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses with corresponding first and second MAC addresses;
- wherein at least first and second sets of configuration parameters associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses are stored in the telephone set, and one of the first and second sets of configuration parameters is applied to a selected telephone line.
An apparatus comprising:
- an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses with corresponding first and second MAC addresses;
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- at least first and second telephone line selectors manipulated by a user to select between telephone lines associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses;
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- at least first and second sets of configuration parameters associated with the first and second Internet Protocol addresses stored in the telephone set, and one of the first and second sets of configuration parameters is applied to the telephone line selected by the user;
- wherein the configuration parameters include a connection parameter and an audio processing parameter.
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A method comprising the steps of:
- providing an Internet Protocol telephone set accommodating at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses;
- selecting among the at least first and second Internet Protocol addresses in response to user selection of a telephone line;
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- mapping a predetermined set of stored configuration parameters to the selected Internet Protocol address.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.