System for interconnecting standard telephony communications equipment to internet protocol networks
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Abstract
A system for linking standard telephony communications with internet protocols. Standard telephony equipment, such as a telephone, can communicate using the internet without special adapters or the like. A network of Internet servers may be connected to the Internet and telephony communications system, enabling telephony communications equipment access to the Internet.
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9 Claims
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1-8. -8. (canceled)
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9. Apparatus comprising:
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a phone switch connected to a phone device via a local area network using IP addressing;
the phone switch including a destination number determination mechanism to determine a given destination number of a given call placed by the phone device;
the phone switch further including an IP versus public phone network discriminator to determine whether the given destination number resides on an IP addressed network or resides on a public phone network;
an analog voice converter to convert payload of the given call to an analog signal suitable for the public phone network when the discriminator determines that the given destination number resides on the public phone network;
a point-to-point IP communication mechanism to establish the given call point-to-point over an Internet connection without going through a public phone network when the discriminator determines that the given destination number resides on an IP addressed network.
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