Telephony terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10148802-B2
Application number	US-201615232803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2016
Priority date	Sep 27, 2002
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a network port configured to connect to a network interface that provides access to a data network;
a controller configured to, in response to receipt of header data from a phone port of the apparatus, initiate a service identified by the header data from a group of services supported by the apparatus, wherein the group of services comprises at least
a public switched telephone network service configured to process analog telepho…

Assignees

• Callahan Cellular Llc

Inventors

• Yukie Satoru
• Kwon Mike
• Hagopian Craig M
• Shirai Kazuhiko

Classifications

• H04M7/1295

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M7/0036

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/66

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M7/1235

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/2535 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic