# US 6,215,863 B1 · Method and apparatus for providing a station set with advanced telecommunications services

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- Number: US 6,215,863 B1
- Document ID: US6215863B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 08/999,299
- Filed: 1997-12-29
- Granted: 2001-04-10
- Earliest claimed: 1997-12-29
- Assignees: Ameritech Corporation
- Inventors: Raymond Walden Bennett, III; Laura Marie Griffith; Arnold M. Lund
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US6215863B1

## CPC

- H04M 1/2471: {Configurable and interactive telephone terminals with subscriber controlled features modifications, e.g. with ADSI capability [Analog Display Services Interface] (systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers H04M3/42; administration or customization of services H04M3/42136; by downloading data to substation equipment H04M3/42178)}
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

## 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

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; and
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.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The invention of claim 1, wherein said access line comprises an analog local loop.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The invention of claim 1, further comprising a data network, and wherein said telephony application means comprises a telephony application server and a data gateway coupled with said server and said data network.

### Claim 4

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; and
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.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The invention of claim 4, wherein the telephony application means further comprises a local telephony applications server coupled with said first station set.

### Claim 6

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; and
(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.