Server apparatus

• US 20070071191A1
• Filed: 06/26/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Yasumasa, Shima, Koji, Fukazawa, Shigeru, Matsukawa, Fumikazu
• Application Number:
  US11/475,399
• Publication Number:
  US 20070071191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/93.90
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42323 PBX's with CTI arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs and the connection IDs contained in a call information event and state information representing a call connection state between the plurality of telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between the plurality of telephone terminals, a determination unit to determine whether a call connection state between telephone terminals corresponding to the connection IDs is changed by referring to the management table based on the connection IDs contained in the call information event, when the call information event is received, and a controller which updates state information corresponding to the connection IDs in the management table, and performs a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of the plurality of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

Claims

1. A server apparatus which receives call information including terminal IDs and connection IDs specifying a plurality of telephone terminals to perform call connections by a telephone exchange apparatus executing exchange processing among a plurality of telephone terminals, and which links data communication connections at data terminals associated with the plurality of the telephone terminals, respectively, with the call connections, the server apparatus comprising:

a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs and the connection IDs contained in a call information event from the telephone exchange apparatus and state information representing a call connection state between the plurality of telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between the plurality of telephone terminals;

a determination unit to determine whether a call connection state between telephone terminals corresponding to the connection IDs is changed by referring to the management table based on the connection IDs contained in the call information event, when the call information event is received; and

a controller which updates state information corresponding to the connection IDs in the management table, when the determination unit determines that the call connection state is changed, and performs a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of the plurality of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

2. The server apparatus according to claim 1, when the controller receives a call information event about a connection request of a third telephone terminal to a first and second telephone terminals which have been placed in the call connected status,

wherein the controller updates the state information in the management table to state information indicating a call connection state between the first, second and third telephone terminals, and performs a data communication connection between first, second and third data terminals associated with terminal IDs of the first, second and third telephone terminals based on the updated state information.

3. The server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller compares one of the connection IDs included in the call information event with connection IDs included in the management table and updates state information corresponding to the one of the connection IDs only when the one of the connection IDs coincides with one of the connection IDs included in the management table.