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Systems and methods for connecting legacy products via an analog telephone adapter (ATA)

  • US 10,298,521 B2
  • Filed: 07/08/2013
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of establishing a modem connection link from a public switched telephone network modem to an alarm processing system comprising:

  • coupling an alarm data generated from an alarm system to a sending modem;

    coupling the sending modem to an analog telephone adapter to transmit the alarm data,coupling the analog telephone adapter to a first internet connection of an IP network,receiving the alarm data from the first internet connection of the IP network and communicating the alarm data to a media gateway, the media gateway capable of supporting an HTTPS protocol and further capable of interfacing to the public switched telephone network;

    monitoring, by an analog telephone adapter timer control module in conjunction with a timer sequencer module, one or more unique data fields for a live time communication;

    receiving the alarm data from the media gateway and transmitting the alarm data to a receiving modem of a receiving computer system via the public switch telephone network so that the alarm company computer system receives the alarm data;

    monitoring, a reception, a complete transmission and verifying an accurateness of reception of the alarm data at the receiving computer system;

    transmitting the live time communication, controlled by the analog telephone adapter timer control module in conjunction with the timer sequencer module;

    sending a series of RTP/SIP messages from the analog telephone adapter through a firewall to the IP network, the media gateway, the public switch telephone network and the receiving modern of the alarm processing system, where a reply RTP/SIP message, returned back from the receiving modem updates a controlling component of the analog telephone adapter and the media gateway regarding the status of the live time communication; and

    synchronously controlling the live time communication;

    occurring between the analog telephone adapter and the receiving modem of the receiving computer system.

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