Server apparatus

• US 20070071202A1
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• 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:
  US11/474,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20070071202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/158
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/106 across networks, e.g. mapping telephone numbers to data network addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0012 Details of application programming interfaces [API] for telephone networks; Arrangements which combine a telephonic communication equipment and a computer, i.e. computer telephony integration [CPI] 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 contained in a call information event from the telephone exchange apparatus and status information indicating the call connected status of the telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between telephone terminals, a decision unit to refer to the management table based on terminal IDs contained in the received call information event and decides the presence or absence of a change in the call connected status of telephone terminals corresponding to the terminal IDs, and a controller which updates the status information corresponding to the terminal IDs in the management table, when the decision by the decision unit is presence, and establishes a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

Claims

1. A server apparatus which receives call information including terminal 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 contained in a call information event from the telephone exchange apparatus and status information indicating the call connected status of the telephone terminals, when the call connection is established between telephone terminals;

a decision unit to refer to the management table based on terminal IDs contained in the received call information event and decides the presence or absence of a change in the call connected status of telephone terminals corresponding to the terminal IDs, at the time of receiving a call information event; and

a controller which updates the status information corresponding to the terminal IDs in the management table, when the decision by the decision unit is presence, and establishes a data communication connection between data terminals associated with the terminal IDs of telephone terminals to be connected, based on the updated status information.

2. The server apparatus according to claim 1, when one of first and second telephone terminals which have been placed in the call connected status is switched from the call connected status to the hold status and then the hold status is released,

wherein the controller updates the status information of the first and second telephone terminals in the management table from the hold status to the original call status, and then establishes a data communication connection between first and second data terminals associated with the first and second telephone terminals based on the updated status information.

3. The server apparatus according to claim 1, when receiving a call information event concerning a request by a third telephone terminal to connect to first and second telephone terminals which have been placed in the call connected status,

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

4. The server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller compares the terminal IDs contained in the call information event received from the telephone exchange apparatus with the terminal IDs in the management table, and updates the status information corresponding to the terminal IDs, only when a coincidence occurs.