Method and apparatus for providing a station set with advanced telecommunications services
AssigneeAmeritech Corporation
InventorsRaymond Walden Bennett, III, Laura Marie Griffith, Arnold M. Lund
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Abstract
A telecommunications system and method are provided in which network-based telecommunication devices provide advanced telecommunications services. The station set of such a telecommunications system contains the elements necessary for the presentation of a user interface and for converting electrical signals to and from speech. The components that provide advanced telephony services and even basic telephony functionality such as touch-tone generation are remotely located from the station set in the telecommunications network.
Claims6
A telecommunications system comprising:
- a first station set operative to generate a request for a telecommunications connection with a second station set;
- telephony application means, remotely located from said first station set, operative to generate, in response to said request, a command to establish a telecommunications connection between said first station set and said second station set;
- telephony control means, remotely located from said first station set and coupled with said telephony application means, operative to establish said telecommunications connection in response to said command;
- an access line coupling said first station set with said telephony application means;
- wherein the request is not recognizable by the telephony control means until the telephony application means translates the request;
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- wherein said first station set comprises a first data-over-voice modem, and wherein the invention further comprises a second data-over-voice modem external to both said first and second station sets and coupled with said first data-over-voice modem, said telephony control means, and said telephony application means.
A telecommunications system comprising:
- a first station set operative to generate a request for a telecommunications connection with a second station set;
- telephony application means, remotely located from said first station set, operative to generate, in response to said request, a command to establish a telecommunications connection between said first station set and said second station set;
- telephony control means, remotely located from said first station set and coupled with said telephony application means, operative to establish said telecommunications connection in response to said command;
- an access line coupling said first station set with said telephony application means;
- wherein the request is not recognizable by the telephony control means until the telephony application means translates the request;
- wherein said access line comprises a digital subscriber line;
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- wherein the telephony application means comprises a premises gateway coupled with said first station set;
- and wherein the invention further comprises a digital subscriber line access multiplexer coupled with said premises gateway.
A method for establishing a telecommunications connection, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) sending a request to establish a telecommunications connection between a first station set and a second station set, said request being sent from said first station set to a telephony application means remotely located from said first station set;
- (b) using said telephony application means to command a telephony control means remotely located from said station set to establish a telecommunications connection between said first and second station sets;
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- (c) using said telephony control means to establish said telecommunications connection;
- wherein the request is not recognizable by the telephony control means until the telephony application means translates the request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.