Internet video phone

• US 20040170259A1
• Filed: 11/07/2003
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CS Technology
• Original Assignee: CS Technology
• Inventors: Park, Jae Hun
• Application Number:
  US10/704,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20040170259A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.17
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1464 using a card, such as credit card, prepay card or SIM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1482 involving use of telephony infrastructure for billing for the transport of data, e.g. call detail record [CDR] or intelligent network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1059 End-user terminal functionalities specially adapted for real-time communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an Internet video phone. The Internet video phone has a display unit, a camera unit, a Local Area Network (LAN) interface and a control unit. The Internet video phone includes an interface that is adapted to be controlled by the control unit and to exchange data with a smart card reader that writes and reads data on and from a smart card, thus being capable of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP)-accessing a server via the Internet at the time of smart card charging and an electronic payment, and transmitting/receiving payment information to and from the server.

Claims

1. An Internet video phone, the Internet video phone having a display unit, a camera unit, a Local Area Network (LAN) interface and a control unit, comprising:

an interface adapted to be controlled by the control unit and to exchange data with a smart card reader that writes and reads data on and from a smart card, thus being capable of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP)-accessing a server via an Internet at a time of smart card charging and an electronic payment, and transmitting/receiving payment information to and from the server.

2. The Internet video phone as set forth in claim 1, wherein the smart card reader satisfies International smart card standards of International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Engineering Consortium (IEC) 7816, is interfaced with the Internet video phone through a serial port, and can be attached to and detached from the Internet video phone.

3. The Internet video phone as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interface for interfacing the Internet video phone with a PSTN to allow the Internet video phone to be used as a typical telephone when the Internet is unavailable.