Proxy media service for digital telephony

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9549078-B2
Application number	US-201414566680-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 10, 2014
Priority date	Feb 25, 2010
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) service system includes a SIP-enabled soft switch at a telephony service provider, executing code from a coupled machine-readable medium, routing SIP transactions to remote destinations, a media server coupled to the SIP-enabled soft switch storing media including ring tones and music-on-hold for use in progressing transactions, and an interface to a wide-area-network (WAN) for transmitting transactions and media. The SIP-enabled soft switch determines for each transaction from stored data whether media services are to be provided or not provided for that destination, and in the event media services are not to be provided, alters packet data to indicate media services to be provided by a server local to the destination.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for providing media services for Internet telephony comprising:
a processor associated with a second media device; and
memory coupled to the processor and storing computer instructions therein, wherein the instructions cause the processor to:
receive, over a wide area network, first media from a first media device, wherein the first media device provides media services to a first communication device; and
ignore the first media received over the wide area network and instead provide second media to a second communication device over a local area network in place of the first media,

wherein the first media device is coupled to a switch, wherein the switch is configured to transmit telephony signaling messages directed to the second communication device over the wide area network, and
wherein the switch is configured to determine whether media services are to be provided or not for a destination associated with the second communication device, and in response to determining that media services are not to be provided, the switch is further configured to transmit packet data for indicating that media services are to be provided by a device local to the destination.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the signaling messages are session-initiation protocol (SIP) signaling messages.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wide area network is a public Internet network.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein second media is configured to be provided by a second media device coupled to the second communication device over the local area network.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first and second media devices are configured to provide media selected from a group consisting of a ring tone, music, and busy signaling tone.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second media is personalized to a user of the second communication device.

7. A method for providing media services for Internet telephony comprising:
receiving by a processor associated with a second media device, over a wide area network, first media from a first media device, wherein the first media device provides media services to a first communication device; and
ignoring, by the processor, first media received over the wide area network and instead providing second media to a second communication device over a local area network in place of the first media,
wherein the first media device is coupled to a switch, wherein the switch is configured to transmit telephony signaling messages directed to the second communication device over the wide area network, and
wherein the switch is configured to determine whether media services are to be provided or not for a destination associated with the second communication device, and in response to determining that media services are not to be provided, the switch is further configured to transmit packet data for indicating that media services are to be provided by a device local to the destination.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the signaling messages are session-initiation protocol (SIP) signaling messages.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the wide area network is a public Internet network.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein second media is configured to be provided by a second media device coupled to the second communication device over the local area network.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first and second media devices are configured to provide media selected from a group consisting of a ring tone, music, and busy signaling tone.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second media is personalized to a user of the second communication device.

Assignees

• Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc

Inventors

• Zhakov Vyacheslav
• Sayko Vyacheslav Valentinovich

Classifications

• H04L65/1053

  IP private branch exchange [PBX] functionality entities or arrangements (circuit switched PBXs H04M3/00) · CPC title

• H04M3/56

  Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities (video conference systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• H04M7/0033

  Notification or handling of incoming calls by a computer · CPC title

• H04L65/105

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M7/129 Primary

  Details of providing call progress tones or announcements · CPC title