Pbx To Central Office Signalling (e.g., Direct Outward Dialing) Patents (Class 379/234)
  • Patent number: 10417587
    Abstract: An order entry system communicates with the customer over a user interface and at the same time works with an automated installation system for installing network service. The order entry system prompts the customer to place a new service order. The service parameters of the new service order are passed to the installation system. The order entry system notifies the customer of the route and prompts the customer to add a service order for the route to the customer order. If the customer adds the service order to the customer order, the order entry system prompts the customer to reserve the service order or to submit an order for the service. If the customer reserves or submits an order for the service, the order entry system requests the installation system to design an actual communication line circuit to satisfy the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Richard L. Wall, Kendall Gelner, Brendan Sullivan, Sanjay Singhal
  • Patent number: 9263035
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for designating certain voice commands as hotwords. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving a hotword followed by a voice command. Additional actions include determining that the voice command satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with designating the voice command as a hotword, where a voice command that is designated as a hotword is treated as a voice input regardless of whether the voice command is preceded by another hotword. Further actions include, in response to determining that the voice command satisfies one or more predetermined criteria associated with designating the voice command as a hotword, designating the voice command as a hotword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 8891514
    Abstract: A system and method for providing PBX-like functionality at a mobile location includes the capability of maintaining a network session with a mobile number associated with a remote worker. The system utilizes a remote office platform interposed between a data communications network and a conventional PBX switch. A remotely located individual (such as a telecommuter) “logs in” to the remote office platform and, once the individual is authenticated, PBX-like communication with the mobile device is established. If the device is a computer-enabled device and includes a display, the platform can enable a graphical user interface emulating a PBX station set to the device. Alternatively, the remote worker can enter either spoken commands or series of DTMF sequences to utilize the PBX-like features. For these applications, the remote office platform includes a speech recognition module and a translation table for converting a sequence of DTMF tones into a PBX-like call feature (e.g., transfer, hold, mute, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Yihsiu Chen, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Kathleen C. Fowler, Shelley B. Goldman, Shaoqing Q. Wang, Roy Philip Weber, Robert S. Westrich, Aleksandr Zelezniak
  • Patent number: 8428647
    Abstract: Aspects relate to provision of enterprise call capabilities to mobile devices. For example, a mobile device can indicate, over a data channel, that a PBX is to make a call on its behalf to a called party. The PBX can call back the mobile device, call the called party, and bridge those call legs to establish the call. The mobile device can employ mechanisms that a particular incoming call is made by the PBX. These mechanisms can include using ANI information, sending, and receiving audible verification codes over the voice channel established after answering the incoming call. The verification codes can be selected based on different behaviors of the mobile devices and the network or networks used by the device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Miranda Bing Ying Lim, Gibran Siddique
  • Patent number: 8417182
    Abstract: Disclosed is an excessive-signal prevention apparatus which includes a connection state judgment section and a zero-level signal insertion section. The connection state judgment section detects whether connection between a first device and a second device is normal or abnormal on the basis of a pattern of signals that are other than a transmission signal transmitted from the first device to the second device at normal time and are required for transmission of the transmission signal. The zero-level signal insertion section outputs the transmission signal output from the first device to a destination during a period of time when the connection state judgment section judges that the connection between the first and the second device is normal, and which outputs a zero-level signal to the destination during a period of time when the connection state judgment section judges that the connection between the first and the second device is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Shimado
  • Patent number: 8358769
    Abstract: A client-server telephone call router system as part of a customer premises system has a client-server router adapted to execute on a telephony switch, such as a public branch exchange (PBX) or other telephony switch, or on a processor connected by CTI link to a telephony switch. The telephony switch or processor executing the router is connected to a local area network (LAN) that also interconnects computer workstations proximate to telephones connected to the telephony switch. Client user interface applications run on the computer workstations, allowing clients to edit routing rules for the router, which has a list of routing rules keyed to users and workstations of the customer premises system. The editing rules are kept by the router in portions dedicated to individual users. With this system a user can edit at a workstation on the LAN his\her own routing rules, and transmit the edits to the client-server router where the rules will be followed to route calls for that user and protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Neyman, Michail Barskiy, Alec Miloslavsky, Oleg Bondarenko, Valeriy Issayev, Andrei Petrov, Paul Karpenko, Alex Smelik, Alexander Volguin, Yuri Ostapchuk, Boris Livshits, Hamid Dadgar
  • Patent number: 8355496
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for generating and displaying various user interfaces for configuring one or more call handling rules associated with managing virtual PBX services rendered at an extension are described. The user interfaces can be used to configure virtual PBX services for a single- or multi-extension environment. The virtual PBX services can provide, for example, a main number, and calls made to the main number can be managed according to one or more sets of call handling rules associated with the virtual PBX services and which can be configured through the user interfaces. The user interfaces can be web-based interfaces accessible through a browser, and can be accessed only after a user or administrator has setup and activated the virtual PBX services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventors: Vlad Vendrow, Vladimir Shmunis, Vi Chau, Praful Shah, Natalie Nayberg
  • Patent number: 8315371
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for programming shortcut keys on a computing device, such as a digital telephony device. One method comprises extracting user context information for a user from a server in communication with the digital telephony device. Key feature grouping information can be created based on the user context information. A key mapping layout can be generated for the digital telephony device by applying rules to designate an order in which selected groups in the key feature grouping information are assigned to selected keys on the digital telephony device to generate a key mapping layout. The keys on the digital telephony device can be programmed using the key mapping layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Terry Tam
  • Patent number: 8284923
    Abstract: Architecture for bridging unwanted calls back to the PSTN (public switch telephone network) thereby freeing-up enterprise ports for other uses. When an incoming PSTN call is received into the enterprise via the PBX, a SIP server makes the decision to trigger bridging after obtaining the call reference and the interface on which the call exists. The SIP server sends a request to the PBX to trigger bridging. When the PBX determines it no longer needs to be involved, it sends the bridging request to the PSTN. More specifically, a mechanism is provided to trigger TBCT (Two B-Channel Transfer) from the SIP server thereby pushing call routing of unwanted calls out of the PBX and preserving PBX ports. The SIP server can retrieve the PSTN-related information from the PBX using either web services or a SIP-based protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Niraj Khanchandani
  • Patent number: 8275111
    Abstract: A routing software application for predicting a best routing destination from a pool of considered routing destinations for an incoming event into a communications routing system has a detection module for detecting the arrival of the event for routing; at least one instance of an information gathering routine for gathering and compiling information about the considered destinations; at least one reporting module for organizing and reporting the gathered information; and a processing module for computing values from the gathered information and selecting the best routing destination based on isolation of the best computed value. In a preferred embodiment scalar load information per media type and per destination and agent skill information related to at least media skills per type of media per destination is processed by the processing module, which isolates, identifies, and selects at least the best destination for routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir G. Golitsin, Vitaly Y. Barinov
  • Patent number: 8254550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of telecommunications. More particularly, to a method and an apparatus that would allow callers to time-share telephone, tele-communication or communication lines in order to truthfully vary the telephone line from which they are calling parties through a communication, telecommunication or Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). The system would allow customers to utilize methods that would manage their calls in ways that would maximize the probability that a called party would answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventor: Miguel Serrano
  • Patent number: 8228905
    Abstract: When a telephone a belonging to an office a calls up a telephone b belonging to an office b, a subscriber of the telephone a operates a WS a connected to a computer network and edits camp-on request information when the telephone b is busy. The camp-on request information is transferred from the WS a to a CTI server b belonging to the office b connected to the computer network. The CTI server unit b performs camp-on control between the telephone b belonging to the office b and the telephone a belonging to the office a by controlling a private branch exchange b based on a schedule corresponding to the received camp-on request information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Fukuda, Hideaki Matsune
  • Patent number: 8036369
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for realizing direct dialing to an extension across Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), in witch firstly a calling terminal of a PBX seizes a PBX circuit; secondly the calling terminal initiates a call to a called extension terminal in a PBX cluster by dialing a called extension terminal number directly; then a exchange system resolves the number of the PBX switchboard to which the calling terminal belongs according to a calling terminal number, and obtains a number of the PBX switchboard to which a called extension terminal belongs according to information of the called extension terminal number; and then the exchange system initiates a call to the PBX switchboard to which the called extension terminal belongs, and, when receiving an answer to the call from the PBX switchboard, sends the called extension terminal number, to connect the calling terminal with the called extension terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaoming Yang, Hanbing Chen
  • Patent number: 8036348
    Abstract: A method of presenting instructions to a user sending an incoming communication to a service center includes presenting a menu to the user. The menu includes a plurality of procedure descriptors to the user. The user is presented, according to a selection of one of the procedure descriptors by the user, a sequence of instructions which enable completion of a procedure described by the selected procedure descriptor. The incoming communication is transferred at a position in the sequence of instructions to a representative. The incoming communication is also transferred back to the same position in the sequence of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Ted Kortum, Robert R. Bushey
  • Patent number: 8027454
    Abstract: A method is provided for reserving trunks on a trunk group for designated class of service calls. The trunks available for a denominated class of service is specified, and the trunks remaining are enumerated and designated as of no class and available for all calls. When the no class trunks are in use and a new call is a denominated class of service, it is allocated to a trunk and the trunks available is reduced accordingly. If the no class trunks are in use and a new call is not of a denominated class of service, the new call is allocated to a further trunk group. When a call is released and the number available is reduced below a specified number, the number of available trunks increases. If the number of trunks available is not reduced below a specified number, the released trunk is made available for all calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Larry H. Piercy, Trey A. Hilyard
  • Patent number: 8023629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a call from a calling party to an extension of a PBX. By providing the calling party with a graphical display of information of extension of the PBX the user may easy and fast select a desired extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: AB Aurora Invest
    Inventor: Carl Leijonhufvud
  • Patent number: 7957519
    Abstract: It is one objective of the present invention to provide a private branch exchange that can identify calls to be routed to an extension phone group. A private branch exchange according to this invention comprises: a caller information detector for, when a call is received, obtaining caller information; a group incoming call table in which two or more extension numbers are correlated with an extension incoming call group number; and an incoming call group controller for, when a call received through the telephone line is for an extension incoming call group number, extracting from the group incoming call table extension numbers that are correlated with the extension incoming call group number and transmitting an incoming call signal to extension phones corresponding to the extension numbers, and also for storing, in a group incoming call log table, a caller number that is obtained by the caller information detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohisa Handa
  • Patent number: 7920692
    Abstract: Enhanced call management services to users receiving incoming calls on extensions on a private branch exchange (PBX) is provided by an application server configured to provide call management services to at least one of the users and a protocol proxy configured to receive call information from the PBX according to a protocol for establishing call sessions. The application server is further configured to receive the call information from the protocol proxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Robert Olshansky, Eric R. Sporel, Robert Liao, Derek Mitsumori, Sujin Catherine Chang, James Flynn
  • Publication number: 20100111078
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling customer premise Public Branch eXchange (PBX) service feature processing to be performed in a service provider network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a signaling message associated with a user by an application server deployed in a communication network, and accesses a customer premise Internet Protocol (IP) Public Branch eXchange (PBX) to retrieve customer premise IP PBX based service logic and data associated with the user by the application server. The method forwards an updated signaling message by the application server to a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) network element for completing a service feature associated with the service logic and data in the communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Dennis Duffy, Leticia D. Johnson, Myranda Johnson, Stephanie P. Parlamas, Steven A. Siegel
  • Patent number: 7688964
    Abstract: A communications module for communicating between a computer network (1, 2, 3, 4) and a private branch exchange (5), where the communications module is arranged and adapted so as: a. to receive commands from the computer network (1, 2, 3, 4) (computer network commands 13)); b. if necessary to translate the computer network commands (13) into a form suitable for input into the private branch exchange (5) (private branch exchange commands (14)); and c. to send the private branch exchange commands (14) to the private branch exchange (5); to effect programming of the private branch exchange (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Group 3 Technology Limited
    Inventor: Gerald Winston Leighton
  • Patent number: 7627101
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus applicable to an interface between PSTN and PTN for telephone routing. The interface includes a branch switch, a key system, a network branch switch, and media gateway, etc. The telephone routing method and apparatus of the present invention creates, maintains, and utilizes a call-back routing table to enable a specified PSTN user to call the callback external leased line to reach a specified PTN user in a one-stage dialing manner. The process of one-stage dialing includes PTN call origination to PSTN, PSTN call origination to PTN, and callback tag insertion in the call-back routing table. The call-back routing table consists of a plurality of call-back tags. Each call-back tag consists of at least a data triple, i.e. PTN user identifier, PSTN called party telephone number, and callback leased line identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Ming-Feng Chang, Yi-Bing Lin, Ching-Feng Liang
  • Patent number: 7529358
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a communications system that dynamically provides context sensitive functionality. In one embodiment, the system comprises a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) connected by communications channels to one or more communications devices and controlled, in part, by software objects that provide functionality that varies dependent on the hardware and software currently available and the status of that hardware and software. In one embodiment, the user of the communications device is presented, by way of an addressable display and associated function buttons, with only the function options appropriate to the context in which they are currently using the system. For instance, a conference option only becomes available when more than one incoming call is made to the same telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Avaya, Inc.
    Inventor: Kaustubha A. Tankhiwale
  • Patent number: 7505575
    Abstract: A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, John E. Simino, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Patent number: 7463728
    Abstract: It is one objective of the present invention to provide a private branch exchange that can identify calls to be routed to an extension phone group. A private branch exchange according to this invention comprises: a caller information detector for, when a call is received, obtaining caller information; a group incoming call table in which two or more extension numbers are correlated with an extension incoming call group number; and an incoming call group controller for, when a call received through the telephone line is for an extension incoming call group number, extracting from the group incoming call table extension numbers that are correlated with the extension incoming call group number and transmitting an incoming call signal to extension phones corresponding to the extension numbers, and also for storing, in a group incoming call log table, a caller number that is obtained by the caller information detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohisa Handa
  • Patent number: 7330443
    Abstract: To provide CTI services or features via a communication channel having a plurality of communication connections, after communication of a request for a CTI service or feature for a selected communication connection, an assignment between a device ID, a connection ID and the requested CTI service or feature is established. A control sequence for setting the requested CTI service or feature is invoked, specifying an assignment identifier designating the assignment between the device ID, the connection ID and the requested CTI service or feature as the transferred parameter. The control sequence invoked is processed with evaluation of the assignment identifier to provide the requested CTI service or feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Claus Rist, Stephan Schaumburg, Michael Volkmann
  • Patent number: 7274786
    Abstract: A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, John E. Simino, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Patent number: 7272386
    Abstract: A system for handling special number calls placed from a phone coupled at a connection locus in a private network; includes: (a) a private switch controlling communications with the phone from outside the private network during a call session; (b) a control facility coupled with the private switch and with a special number call system for effecting communications between the private network and the special number call system; and (c) a contact parameter storage unit coupled with at least one of the private switch and the special number call system for identifying at least one contact parameter relating to the connection locus at least during the call session. The private switch, the control facility and the special number call system cooperate in using the contact parameter to effect call back from the special number call system to the phone at least during the call session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Intrado Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Marc Meer
  • Patent number: 7099454
    Abstract: A communication system for providing caller identification services comprises a processing system configured to store a data structure having a plurality of codes associated with a plurality of caller numbers, and to translate one of the codes into one of the caller numbers using the data structure. The communication system further comprises a communication interface configured to receive a first call request for a call including the one code and transfer a second call request for the call including the one caller number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Warren B. Cope, Daniel Charles Sbisa
  • Patent number: 6970551
    Abstract: A method for uniquely identifying calls having the same originating number and dialed number, and network components adapted to carry out that method. A Parking Manager receives a Park Request that includes the originating number, the dialed number, and a Network Call ID (Identification). The Parking Manager accesses a pool of Dialed Number Identification System (DNIS) override digits associated with the dialed number and returns these digits with the response to the Park Request. The originating number and DNIS override digits uniquely identify the call, and are combined with the destination number, and the combination is flagged as pending in the Parking Manager. The DNIS override digits are received by an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system that uses a many-to-one mapping to identify the dialed number and complete the call, and returns a call arrival signal to the Parking Manager including a PPID generated by the Voice Response system to Parking Manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: MCI, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Neal Costrell, Frances Delia Evance Taylor
  • Patent number: 6917679
    Abstract: A method for interface an IPABX and a local exchange includes the steps of: processing a call originated from an IPABX by a local exchange having one discernible individual by binding a plurality of data transmission lines, that is, a data transmission line trunk group; and processing a call destined to the IPABX through the local exchange. Since the directory number can be managed by a group name, stepping up from the method for fixing the directory number to the line, the expense for the line can be reduced. In addition, the problem of separation between the origination line and the destination line as in the conventional method that the trunk line and the PRI line are together used is settled. Moreover, since there is no need to allocate an additional signaling point, an expense possibly incurred for the allocation of a signaling point and consumption of the signaling point resource can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Du Hyun You, Byoung Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 6879680
    Abstract: A virtual private network includes an internet protocol (IP) network and a public switched telephone network (PSTN). An enterprise gateway is operably connected to the IP network. The enterprise gateway is operably connected to a switch of the PSTN through a direct access line (DAL). The set-up signaling for virtual private network calls and the calls themselves are transported across the internet protocol network and the public switched telephone network through the direct access line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: MC, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Donovan, Matthew J. Cannon
  • Patent number: 6853720
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method comprising establishing a connection between a software communication channel and a media server, wherein the software communication channel is presented to the server as a media stream; transmitting to the media server a call object including a media handle; attaching a media application to the media handle; and establishing a connection between the media application and the software communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Navindra Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 6819665
    Abstract: A network implemented communication system, comprising a Local Area Network (LAN), a plurality of H.323 endpoints connected to the LAN, each of the endpoints including a communication application for communicating via H.323, at least one H.323 Gatekeeper connected to the LAN for third party control of communications between the H.323 endpoints, and software within each of the H.323 endpoints and the H.323 Gatekeeper for implementing features which do not require direct connection between the H.323 endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Mitel Knowledge Corporation
    Inventors: Debbie Pinard, Harold Sit, Sonya Fullarton, Eliana Peres
  • Patent number: 6816483
    Abstract: A method for operating a switched virtual circuit call processing/routing system, and a computer readable medium containing a call processing/routing program for a voice network switching (VNS) system are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, an adjunct processor is attached to a network node and software-configured to service the switching needs of one or more PBXs that are also tied to the network node. The service capability offered by the software-configured adjunct processor alows PBXs to establish voice and data connections between each other dynamically via Switched Virtual Circuits (SVCs) that are routed directly across a WAN. This arrangement eliminates the need for an extensive mesh of PVCs or leased “tie lines” carrying voice and data traffic between PBXs across the WAN. It also eliminates the need for routing connections in multiple hops between PBXs. Another advantage is that the number of physical interfaces required on the PBXs and the attached switches is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Beckstrom, Pradip N. Nirmel
  • Patent number: 6788778
    Abstract: A private branch exchange (PBX) system includes plural extension telephones divided into extension groups, and a PBX which sends information about one of the extension group to a caller. Plural extension interfaces (I/Fs) coupling the extension telephones to the PBX are divided into groups. The PBX calls each of the extension telephones coupled to all the extension I/Fs of the extension groups corresponding to a call-in signal. In the PBX, a memory stores text data about the extension groups. A controller sends the text data about the extension group to a caller's telephone responsive to the call-in signal. The information can be thus displayed on an extension telephone or an outside-line telephone of the caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukichi Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 6751309
    Abstract: A private branch exchange (PBX) or other communication system switch processes a call to determine if an identifier associated with the call has a corresponding entry in a stored list of external endpoints registered with the switch. The switch directs the call to an external port of the switch for delivery to a given one of the external endpoints if the identifier associated with the call has a corresponding entry in the stored list of external endpoints registered with the switch. The given external endpoint does not have a fixed external port assignment in the switch. Instead, the switch dynamically selects from a set of external ports an available external port over which the call is directed to the given external endpoint. The dynamic selection of the available external port may be implemented using an automatic route selection (ARS) algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Stephen M. Milton
  • Patent number: 6744880
    Abstract: A method for creating a telephone digital switching platform to provide conversion and routing of telephone calls arriving on a number of telephony interfaces to a number of outbound telephony interfaces, based on in parameter and out of parameter call setup information. Receiving and transmitting interfaces can include, but are not limited to, Integrated Services Digital Network (“ISDN”), Digital Transmission Carrier System (“T-1”), DID (“Direct Inward Dial”), Loop Start, (“E & M”) and Direct Outward Dial (“DOD”). Conversion and routing is performed by the steps of capture of call setup information, conversion to “dial number” via database lookup, selection of outbound pathway based on database information, and placement of outbound call and switched connection to inbound call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Telescan Corporation
    Inventors: John P. Jones, George E. Meyer
  • Patent number: 6707897
    Abstract: A private branch exchange comprising means, including at least an extension terminal, for connecting the extension terminal to a communication network, means for transmitting to the communication network a call including information relating to a caller number, when a transmission call is made from the extension terminal, means for sending, when a call is received from the communication network and the call includes information on a number, the call to the extension terminal corresponding to the called number, memory means for storing information on a predetermined number which is preconfirmed to function as a called number for callback, determination means for determining, when a call has been received from the extension terminal, whether or not the predetermined number is obtained, which corresponds to a caller number received from the extension terminal or a caller number corresponding to the extension number, with use of the information stored in the memory means, and means for employing, when the acquisi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshio Nishida
  • Patent number: 6704407
    Abstract: A node (2) and a local exchange (1) communicate with each other over a V5.2 interface created in response to instructions prepared by a computer (22). The method of preparing the instructions involves the steps of allocating identification data to the signal means linking the node and the local exchange so as to enable the latter to determine the identity of the node communicating over the signal link, specifying which C channels are to be transmitted along the signal link means, and, for each specified channel, specifying the C paths, i.e. the type of telecommunications traffic, to be carried thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Networks Oy
    Inventors: Anthony John Woods, Joanna Frances Wexler
  • Patent number: 6668052
    Abstract: A method and a system for signaling used in a call setup in a telecommunication system comprising a telephone network, a Centrex exchange belonging to the telephone network and implementing a private number plan, a first telecommunication terminal, which is connected via a first Centrex subscription to the Central exchange, and a second telecommunication terminal, which is connected to the telephone network with a number comprised in the private numbering plan. In the method, a connection is set up between the first and second telecommunication terminals by using the number comprised in the private numbering plan. In the invention, the same APP parameter is used in the Centrex exchange, both for communication with another Centrex exchange and for communication with a VPN exchange, as is used by a OSIG VPN network in VPN ISUP signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pekka Lampola
  • Patent number: 6567514
    Abstract: A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, John E. Simino, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Patent number: 6516058
    Abstract: An authentication system is applied for a voice network in order to provide the same security as that attained by a data network. Provided is a voice network access system wherein a one-time password system, which is used as an access authentication system, is applied for a voice network that is constituted by an private automatic branch exchange that includes an external interface; wherein the private automatic branch exchange is connected to a computer telephony server across the external interface for the exchange of sender number information that is received from a public network; and wherein the private automatic branch exchange is also connected via the external interface to an authentication system server, which receives a user's name from the computer telephony server and performs a personal authentication process using the user's name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Yamada, Kunio Iimura
  • Publication number: 20020181691
    Abstract: The present invention provides a way of using a remote telephone (208a, 208b, 208c . . . ) to control a plurality of functions of the exchange (240) of a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) system (201). The PBX system (201) includes a server computer (210) capable of controlling the functionality of the exchange (240). The method includes establishing a communication link (206a, 206b, 206c, . . . and 207) between the remote telephone (208a, 208b, 208c . . . ) and the server computer (210). Communications received from the remote telephone (208a, 208b, 208c . . . ) are processed to identify control commands. Control commands are associated with corresponding functions of the exchange (240) of the PBX system (201). The server computer (210) controls the corresponding functions of the exchange (240) based on the control commands. The control commands may be in the form of DTMF signals or voice signals that form words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Teltone Corporation
    Inventors: Kory Wade Miller, Melody Lee Moore
  • Patent number: 6480596
    Abstract: A direct inward-outward dialing (DIOD) trunk circuit having a DIOD detecting/sending circuit connected to tip and ring terminals connected to a central office line and a primary coil of a transformer, for detecting a polarity of the voltage potential at the tip and ring terminals and the current flowing therethrough to determine reception of one of an incoming and outgoing telephone call, and a switch, controlled by a relay driver responsive to an interface circuit used for interfacing the DIOD trunk circuit with a switching circuit of a private branch exchange (PBX), for enabling the current to flow between the tip and ring terminals through the DIOD detecting/sending circuit via one of a low or high impedance path, wherein the low impedance path is used to establish a speech path between a central office line subscriber and a corresponding extension subscriber of the PBX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hwa Min
  • Patent number: 6463052
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method, system, and apparatus for providing communication control. The invention includes a method in which signaling is processed externally to a switch before it is applied by the network elements. The processor is able to select network characteristics and signal the network elements based the selections. A network employing the processing method is also included, as well as a signaling system that employs the processing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Michael Christie
  • Publication number: 20020131577
    Abstract: Method for operating a private telecommunications network which is connected via at least one multichannel private branch exchange or a comparable device, in particular a call server or a voice-over IP Gateway, with a plurality of real call numbers to a public telecommunications network, the private branch exchange or comparable device for a multiplicity of real call numbers being assigned a common virtual call number for access from the public network to which a call via a free real call number to the internal terminal of the direct dialing number is switched through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventor: Thomas Pfoertner
  • Patent number: 6453034
    Abstract: A virtual private network includes an internet protocol (IP) network and a public switched telephone network (PSTN). An enterprise gateway is operably connected to the IP network. The enterprise gateway is operably connected to a switch of the PSTN through a direct access line (DAL). The set-up signaling for virtual private network calls and the calls themselves are transported across the internet protocol network and the public switched telephone network through the direct access line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: MCI WorldCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Donovan, Matthew J. Cannon
  • Publication number: 20020101976
    Abstract: A telephone system which has the ability to detect when a handset is connected to a local loop telephone line. The system does not allocate any significant amount of resources to handle calls on a particular local loop until it detects that a handset is connected to the local loop line. When the system is installed in a wiring closet the lines to each of the local loops in the building or office suite can be connected to the system. When handsets are connected to particular local loops, the system allocates resources to the particular local loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventor: John A. Doucette
  • Patent number: 6404881
    Abstract: In an exchange including: a call processing unit for processing a call occuring at any one of plural subscriber lines, a main line, or a private line; a switch unit for establishing the call route determined by the call processing unit; and a plurality of trunks for separately connecting to any one of these lines; wherein the exchange comprises: a single or plural decision units for determining whether an audio frequency signal or line signal which separately indicates a state of change of level of the call signal, is received or not, in the route formed by these lines; and a single or plural variable units separately provided between each of routes and a corresponding port of the switch, and performing the change of the level based on the state indicated by the audio frequency signal or line signal which gives a result of decision by the decision unit, for the level of the call signal transmitted toward the route in which the result of the decision is true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Murata, Takamitsu Shirai
  • Patent number: 6351526
    Abstract: A system and a method for communicating dialed digits between a communication device and a call processor during call setup include transmitting at least the first digit of a telephone number from the communication device to the call processor within a first data packet. The call processor references a dialing plan to determine if the first data packet provides sufficient digits to complete the requested call. If not, the call processor determines the minimum quantity of digits required under the dialing plan to determine the destination of the call and transmits a protocol command to the communication device to transmit the minimum quantity of digits to the call processor within a subsequent data packet. The call processor continues to reference the dialing plan to determine whether additional digits are required and to request additional packets until sufficient packets have been received to establish the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Shmuel Shaffer, William J. Beyda