Abstract: The invention relates to a fixed-telephony terminal comprising a telephone directory and means for transmitting and receiving SMS messages. The terminal comprises: means for converting telephone directory data into SMS messages in order to transmit them to a server, and/or means for receiving SMS messages from the server, representing directory data, and means for converting these received SMS messages into directory entries. In one embodiment, the terminal comprises means for requesting automatic synchronization or manually-controlled synchronization of the directory.

Abstract: The invention concerns a telephone set associated with a multimedia terminal. Said set comprises means for ordering transmission, to a server comprising a database wherein are stored identifiers of telephone sets and identifiers of the multimedia terminals associated with said telephone sets, of a request in the form of a message including an identifier of said first telephone set and an identifier of a second telephone set with which the first set is currently communicating over the phone. The server comprises means for ordering transmission, to a multimedia terminal associated with the first and/or with the second telephone set, of an identifier of another terminal, so as to set up a multimedia communication, through a logical channel different from the telephone communication channel, between said multimedia terminals.