System and method for determining the status of a telephone in a packet switched network
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1. A system for communicating a status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “
- PSN”
) comprising;
the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via PSN;
a telephone status monitor connected so as to monitor a telephone status of the telephone; and
a telephone status file connected to the telephone status monitor for receiving the telephone status of the telephone, and wherein the telephone status file is accessible by a status accessing device via a status network.
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Abstract
A system and method for determining the status of a telephone in a packet switched network. The system and method provides for the telephone status to be determined by a status monitoring device or, where the network is a cable network and the equipment comprises a telephone, by a subscriber cable interface device. The equipment status file is accessible over a network, such as the Internet, by status accessing device. The status file provides status information indicative of the telephone for which the status is being determined.
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1. A system for communicating a status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “
- PSN”
) comprising;
the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via PSN;
a telephone status monitor connected so as to monitor a telephone status of the telephone; and
a telephone status file connected to the telephone status monitor for receiving the telephone status of the telephone, and wherein the telephone status file is accessible by a status accessing device via a status network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for obtaining the status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “
- PSN”
) comprising;
the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN;
a status monitoring device adapted to provide output signals indicative of the status of the telephone;
a first network connected to the status monitoring device for receiving the output signals from the telephone;
a status file connected to the first network for receiving the output signals from the telephone over the first network;
a second network connected to the status file;
a status accessing device connected to the second network, the status accessing device adapted to access the status file over the second network to convey the status of the telephone to a user of the status accessing device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for communicating a status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “
- PSN”
) comprising;
monitoring a telephone status of the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN; and
sending the telephone status to a telephone status file, wherein the telephone status file is accessible by a status accessing device via a status network. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for obtaining the status of a telephone connected to a packet switched network (herein, the “
- PSN”
) comprising;
monitoring a telephone status of the telephone, wherein the telephone is adapted to communicate via the PSN;
sending the telephone status to a telephone status file via a first network;
accessing the telephone status file via a second network using a status accessing device connected to the second network, the status accessing device adapted to convey the status of the telephone to a user of the status accessing device. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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