Apparatus and Method for a Web Programmable Telephone
AssigneeTP Lab, Inc.
InventorChi Fai Ho
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Abstract
A web programmable telephone and a method for operating a web programmable telephone are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a voice module of a wireless household telephone is controlled by an internal web module that can retrieve and execute data operations from a remote portal or server thus adding data functionality to the conventional functions of a telephone. The programmable web module controls all functionality of the web programmable telephone so that every function of the telephone can be programmed and customized by a user.
Claims17
A web programmable telephone comprising:
- a voice module for performing one or more telephone functions;
- a web module for obtaining one or more web pages containing executable instructions, wherein execution of the instructions provides the one or more telephone functions;
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- a programmable controlling interface coupled between the voice module and the web module, wherein the web module programmably controls the voice module through the controlling interface according to the execution of the instructions, wherein the voice module performs the one or more telephone functions.
A method for operating a web programmable telephone, comprising:
- (a) obtaining one or more web pages by a web module, the one or more web pages containing executable instructions for providing one or more telephone functions;
- (b) executing the instructions contained in the one or more web pages;
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- (c) programmably controlling a voice module, through a controlling interface coupled between the web module and the voice module according to the execution of the instructions, wherein the voice module performs the one or more telephone functions.
A method for operating a web programmable telephone, comprising:
- (a) obtaining by a web module one or more web pages corresponding to a receiving a call function;
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- (b) programmably controlling a voice module, through a controlling interface coupled between the web module and the voice module, to perform the receiving a call function according to the one or more web pages.
A method for operating a web programmable telephone, comprising:
- (a) obtaining by a web module one or more web pages corresponding to a disconnecting a call function;
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- (b) programmably controlling a voice module, through a controlling interface coupled between the web module and the voice module, to perform the disconnecting a call function according to the one or more web pages.
A method for operating a web programmable telephone, comprising:
- (a) obtaining by a web module one or more web pages corresponding to an accessing a telephone list function;
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- (b) programmably controlling a voice module, through a controlling interface coupled between the web module and the voice module, to perform the accessing a telephone list function according to the one or more web pages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.