Abstract: A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an instant messaging (IM) server (106) and a VoIP server (110); and a plurality of system clients having both VolP and IM sub-clients. The system clients can log on to their respective servers in parallel. The IM server (106) and the VoIP server (110) can communicate lists of common participants and allow for IM conferences among at least subsets of the system clients while an audio or video teleconference is ongoing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 17, 2002
Publication date:
December 18, 2003
Applicant:
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, In
Inventors:
William J. Beyda, Rami Caspi, Richard Crouch
Abstract: A control interface for linking a computer supported telephony application with a PBX switch utilizing CSTA protocols utilizes ActiveX properties, methods, events, and pages to access all of the events and services provided by the CSTA protocols. Common paradigms such as Invoke_ID and timers are built in to the interface. The interface further provides statistics and diagnostics via property pages.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 23, 2001
Publication date:
December 12, 2002
Applicant:
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, In