Line information security interface for TAPI service provider
AssigneeMitel Corporation
InventorsSteve Szeto, Stanley Adam Gores, Stanley Douglass
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Abstract
A system for providing a secure interface to a PBX system comprising a PBX having a command executor; a plurality of telephony devices connected to the PBX; one or more programmable computing devices connected to the PBX; wherein each programmable computing device has a telephony service provider component which communicates with the PBX command executor through a PBX command interface resident on the programmable computing device to request and obtain a list of telephony device identifiers corresponding to a set of telephony devices which are permitted to be monitored or controlled by the programmable computing device.
Claims12
A system for providing a secure interface to a PBX system comprising:
- (a) a PBX having a command executor;
- (b) a plurality of telephony devices connected to said PBX;
- (c) one or more programmable computing devices connected to said PBX, each of said one or more programmable computing devices having in respect of said PBX a unique identifier;
- wherein each said programmable computing device has a telephony service provider component which communicates with said PBX command executor through a PBX command interface resident on said programmable computing device to request and obtain a list associated with its unique identifier of telephony device identifiers corresponding to a set of said telephony devices which are permitted to be monitored or controlled by said programmable computing device.
A method for providing a secure interface to a PBX system comprising:
- (a) sending a request for monitorable line appearances from a telephony service provider of a programmable computing device to a PBX, said programmable computing device having a unique identifier in respect of said PBX;
- (b) said PBX determining said unique identifier of said programmable computing device upon receipt of said request;
- (c) said PBX sending a list to said programmable computing device of monitorable line appearances associated with said unique identifier in response to said request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.