Telephone relaying apparatus, telephone relaying method, and program

A telephone relaying method, in which a telephone relaying apparatus is provided to a communication network provided with switching equipment, and the telephone relaying apparatus is provided with a telephone number storage unit that, for each of a plurality of telephone terminals that is connected to the communication network, stores a real number that is a telephone number used in the case of directly connecting to the telephone terminal and a published number that is a number published for a third party as a telephone number of the telephone terminal in correlation with each other, the method comprising:

• allowing the telephone relaying apparatus
• to receive a request for connection to a second telephone terminal from a first telephone terminal, the connection request including a telephone number of the first telephone terminal connected to the communication network and the published number of the second terminal,
• to make a call to the first telephone terminal, and
• to read out the real number of the second telephone terminal from the telephone number storage unit based on the published number, which is included in the connection request, of the second telephone terminal, and make a second call to the second telephone terminal, in which the real number of the second telephone terminal is set as a called number.

A computer readable storage media that stores a program that allows a computer to serve as a telephone relaying apparatus, in which the telephone relaying apparatus is provided to a communication network provided with switching equipment, the program allowing the computer to execute:

• a function of connecting to a telephone number storage unit that, for each of a plurality of telephone terminals that is connected to the communication network, stores a real number that is a telephone number used in the case of directly connecting to the telephone terminal and a published number that is a number published for a third party as a telephone number of the telephone terminal in correlation with each other;
• a function of receiving a request for connection to a second telephone terminal from a first telephone terminal, the connection request including a telephone number of the first telephone terminal connected to the communication network and the published number of the second terminal;
• a function of making a first call to the first telephone terminal;
• and a function of reading out the real number of the second telephone terminal from the telephone number storage unit based on the published number, which is included in the connection request, of the second telephone terminal, and making a second call to the second telephone terminal, in which the real number of the second telephone terminal is set as a called number.