Abstract: In a telephone conferencing system, a digital communication network such as the Internet is used to establish and control the telephone connections between multiple conferees with the telephone network being the means of exchanging verbal information. Each conferee may have a computer connected to the digital network, and each has an independent telephone instrument connected to the public switched telephone network. An in-charge conferee utilizes his computer containing appropriate software to initiate the conference and to control the participation of the conferees. The in-charge conferee sends digital control signals to a switch interface controlling a telephone switch as a gateway to the telephone network using SS7 control signals. These SS7 control signals include the commands by which the conferee telephones are rung up, brought on line, or dropped from the conference.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 7, 2014
Assignee:
Xugave Holding DE LLC
Inventors:
Clark E. Johnson, Jr., Richard J. Solomon, Tice F. DeYoung, David J. Farber
Abstract: In a telephone conferencing system, a digital communication network such as the Internet is used to establish and control the telephone connections between multiple conferees with the telephone network being the means of exchanging verbal information. Each conferee may have a computer connected to the digital network, and each has an independent telephone instrument connected to the public switched telephone network. An in-charge conferee utilizes his computer containing appropriate software to initiate the conference and to control the participation of the conferees. The in-charge conferee sends digital control signals to a switch interface controlling a telephone switch as a gateway to the telephone network using SS7 control signals. These SS7 control signals include the commands by which the conferee telephones are rung up, brought on line, or dropped from the conference.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 30, 2011
Publication date:
June 7, 2012
Applicant:
XUGAVE HOLDING DE LLC
Inventors:
Clark E. Johnson, Jr., Richard J. Solomon, Tice F. DeYoung, David J. Farber
Abstract: In a telephone conferencing system, a digital communication network such as the Internet is used to establish and control the telephone connections between multiple conferees with the telephone network being the means of exchanging verbal information. Each conferee may have a computer connected to the digital network, and each has an independent telephone instrument connected to the public switched telephone network. An in-charge conferee utilizes his computer containing appropriate software to initiate the conference and to control the participation of the conferees. The in-charge conferee sends digital control signals to a switch interface controlling a telephone switch as a gateway to the telephone network using SS7 control signals. These SS7 control signals include the commands by which the conferee telephones are rung up, brought on line, or dropped from the conference.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 2009
Date of Patent:
December 13, 2011
Assignee:
Xugave Holding DE LLC
Inventors:
Clark E. Johnson, Jr., Richard J. Solomon, Tice F. DeYoung, David J. Farber