Method of automatically connecting telephone to the internet via server for retrieving information

• US 20040181583A1
• Filed: 03/13/2003
• Published: 09/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Shen, Liang, Lai, Cheng-Shing
• Application Number:
  US10/386,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20040181583A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2749 Automatic dialling or redialling systems, e.g. on off-hook or redial on busy
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a method of automatically connecting an internet telephone to the Internet via a server for retrieving information including setting a program of the server in a memory of the internet telephone enabling a user to set an execution time, a telephone number to be dialed for accessing the Internet, and operating steps for viewing content through the program in order for a CPU of the internet telephone to perform the steps of counting time based on the execution time; dialing the telephone number set to access the Internet for connecting to the server; entering into a Web page via the server based on the operating steps; and downloading information from the Web page and storing the downloaded information in the memory.

Claims

1. A method of automatically connecting an Internet telephone to the Internet via a server for retrieving information including setting a program of the server in a memory of the internet telephone and setting an execution time, a telephone number to be dialed for accessing the Internet, and operating steps for viewing content in the program, a CPU of the internet telephone performs the steps of:

counting time based on the set execution time in the program;

in response to an equality of the incremented time to a predetermined time of execution, dialing the telephone number set to access the Internet for connecting to the server;

entering into a Web page via the server based on the set operating steps; and

downloading information from the Web page and storing the downloaded information in the memory.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein when setting the execution time, the telephone number to be dialed for accessing the Internet, and the operating steps for viewing content by running the program, for setting the execution time, the telephone number to be dialed for accessing the Internet, and the operating steps for viewing content the CPU of the internet telephone performs the steps of:

setting the execution time based on an input time and storing the execution time in the memory;

determining whether an option of automatic setting of the operating steps has been selected and if the determination is negative setting the operating steps based on indices of input operating steps and storing the set operating steps in the memory; and

setting the telephone number to be dialed for accessing the Internet based on the input telephone number and storing the telephone number to be dialed in the memory.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein while an option of automatic setting of the operating steps has been selected, the CPU of the internet telephone performs the steps of:

dialing the telephone number set to access the Internet for connecting to the server;

entering into a Web page via the server based on the operating steps; and

setting indices corresponding to the operating steps of entering the Web page and sequentially storing the indexed operating steps in the memory.