Abstract: A method for supporting communications includes establishing a packet-based audio communication link with a remote device and informing a local computing device of the audio communication link. A message requesting identification of enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device is received from the local computing device and tunneled in the audio communication link to the remote device. A tunneled response in the audio communication link is received from the remote device and forwarded to the local computing device. The response identifies the enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device.

Abstract: A method for supporting communications includes establishing a packet-based audio communication link with a remote device and informing a local computing device of the audio communication link. A message requesting identification of enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device is received from the local computing device and tunneled in the audio communication link to the remote device. A tunneled response in the audio communication link is received from the remote device and forwarded to the local computing device. The response identifies the enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device.

Abstract: A method for supporting communications includes establishing a packet-based audio communication link with a remote device and informing a local computing device of the audio communication link. A message requesting identification of enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device is received from the local computing device and tunneled in the audio communication link to the remote device. A tunneled response in the audio communication link is received from the remote device and forwarded to the local computing device. The response identifies the enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device.

Abstract: A localized digital telephone network may automatically contact a centralized server to identify telephone numbers that connect the local network to a public switched telephone network (PSTN). The server may be a remote identification server that receives calls from local networks, and informs the local networks of the telephone numbers being used by the local networks. The server may capture caller-ID information of the incoming calls, and may return the calls with the captured information encoded in caller-ID signals of the return calls. A method for automated detection may include acts in which a local network generates an outgoing call to a server on a communications port, and then detects an incoming call from the server on the communications port. The local network may determine a caller identifier from the incoming call, and may map the caller identifier to the communications port.

Abstract: A method is provided for establishing a telephone call between a trusted Internet Protocol (IP) telephone and an untrusted device. The method includes receiving a call initiation request from the untrusted device that indicates a desired communication with the trusted IP telephone. The method evaluates the call initiation request, and establishes a telecommunication link between the untrusted device and the trusted IP telephone in response to a positive evaluation of the call initiation request.

Abstract: A system includes telephony devices that provide services and applications through the execution of scripts in web pages.

Abstract: A method for supporting communications involves establishing a communications conference that includes multiple conference participants that each provide an audio stream. Audio data packets in the audio streams are identified, and audio information from selected audio data packets is mixed to generate a conference audio stream that is communicated to the conference participants. Enhanced media packets in at least one of the audio streams are identified, and the enhanced media packets are communicated to selected conference participants.

Abstract: A method for providing telecommunication service to a terminal includes loading a text-based script. The text-based script includes a service definition identifying a user interface web service and an address for the user interface web service. The text-based script also includes a signaling web service definition identifying a signaling web service and an address for the signaling web service. Additionally, the text-based script includes a user interface event handler identifying a user interface event type and including a call to the user interface web service, and a signaling event handler identifying a signaling event type and including a call to the signaling web service. The method additionally includes registering with the user interface web service by communicating a text-based message to the address of the user interface web service, and registering with the signaling web service by communicating a text-based message to the address of the signaling web service.

Abstract: A method is provided for establishing a telephone call between a trusted Internet Protocol (IP) telephone and an untrusted device. The method includes receiving a call initiation request from the untrusted device that indicates a desired communication with the trusted IP telephone. The method evaluates the call initiation request, and establishes a telecommunication link between the untrusted device and the trusted IP telephone in response to a positive evaluation of the call initiation request.

Abstract: A virtual telephony intermediary is provided that includes a first logical port associated with a first telephony device and a second logical port associated with a second telephony device. The virtual telephony intermediary also includes a data manipulation module that manipulates telecommunication data in a payload section of a packet received from the first telephony device at the second logical port. The virtual telephony intermediary further includes a transmission module operable to communicate the manipulated telecommunication data to the second telephony device.

Abstract: A system includes telephony devices that provide services and applications through the execution of scripts in web pages.

Abstract: A system (10) includes a network (12) of the type used to interconnect computers, and a plurality of real telephones (21-26) which are each coupled to the network. A gateway unit (36) is coupled to the network and also to some other communication media, such as trunk lines (37) of a public switching telephone network (38). A virtual phone server (32) provides a virtual simulation of one or more telephones, for purposes of providing the system with the capability to function as an inbound call center and/or an outbound call center. A call manager server (31) provides overall system control relative to the gateway unit, the virtual phone server and the telephones. Several computers (16-19) may also optionally communicate with each other over the network.

Abstract: For use in a communications network capable of establishing a bonded call between first and second endpoints using at least two bonded communication channels, a subsystem for preserving a relative latency of the at least two bonded communication channels to allow the bonded call to be transferred to a third endpoint. The subsystem includes: (1) a buffer depth index detection circuit that detects learned values of buffer depth indices associated with the bonded call and stored at a first location and (2) a buffer depth index transmission circuit, coupled to the buffer depth index detection circuit, that transmits the learned values to a second location accessible by the third endpoint to allow the bonded call to be transferred to the third endpoint without requiring the third endpoint to relearn the values.

Abstract: For use in a communications network having a source and destination endpoint that employs a video transmission protocol in which the destination endpoint of a video stream receives a release command from the source endpoint of the video stream to begin displaying the video stream, the destination endpoint normally receiving the release command only after completion of a capabilities negotiation between the destination endpoint and the source endpoint, a system for, and method of, multicasting the video stream from the source endpoint to at least one destination endpoint.