Voice Protocol Connector Apparatus
AssigneeTelekonnectors Limited
InventorsRamesh Radhakrishnan, Balaji Swaminathan
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Abstract
A connection apparatus has a USB port coupled to a USB interface for connection to a computing device enabled to manage IP audio calls, a land-line telephone port coupled to a Four-Wire Analog telephone interface, for connection to a Four-Wire port of a land-line telephone, a wireless interface for coupling to a communication device enabled to manage voice calls over a network, an analog audio port for a headset, coupled to an analog audio interface, a plurality of protocol translation modules, and switching circuitry enabled to connecting individual ones of the ports through individual ones of the protocol translation modules.
Claims18
A connection apparatus, comprising:
- a USB port coupled to a USB interface for connection to a computing device enabled to manage IP audio calls;
- a land-line telephone port coupled to a Four-Wire Analog telephone interface, for connection to a Four-Wire port of a land-line telephone;
- a wireless interface for coupling to a communication device enabled to manage voice calls over a network;
- an analog audio port for a headset, coupled to an analog audio interface;
- a plurality of protocol translation modules;
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- switching circuitry enabled to connecting individual ones of the ports through individual ones of the protocol translation modules.
An audio call connection method, comprising steps:
- (a) connecting a computing device enabled to manage IP telephony calls to a USB interface of a connection device;
- (b) pairing a cellular communication device with wireless pairing circuitry of the connection device;
- (c) connecting a landline telephone to a landline telephone interface of the connection device;
- (d) connecting an analog headset to an analog audio interface of the connection device;
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- (e) connecting individual ones of the interfaces through appropriate protocol translation mechanisms, enabling voice communication between calls in the different protocols.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.