Server apparatus

• US 20070091876A1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Araki, Motohisa, Izawa, Takahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/584,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20070091876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/04 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1285 Details of finding and selecting a gateway for a particular call

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table in which the terminal IDs, the connection IDs, connection positions of the telephone terminals to the first connection network, and pieces of position information representing the connection positions of the connection apparatuses are caused to correspond to each other, and a controller which refers to the management table based on the terminal ID of a telephone terminal serving as a source, when an outgoing request of emergency notification to the second communication network is generated in the telephone terminals, selects a connection apparatus which is closest to the telephone terminal serving as the source based on the reference result, and executes outgoing control from the selected connection apparatus to the second communication network.

Claims

1. A server apparatus which executes communication connection among a plurality of telephone terminals which are connected to a first communication network and a second communication network which is connected to the first communication network through a plurality of connection apparatuses, the telephone terminals to which terminal IDs are allocated, the connection apparatuses to which connection IDs are allocated, the first communication network for transmitting communication packets, the server apparatus comprising:

a memory which stores a management table in which the terminal IDs, the connection IDs, connection positions of the telephone terminals to the first connection network, and pieces of position information representing the connection positions of the connection apparatuses are caused to correspond to each other; and

a controller which refers to the management table based on the terminal ID of a telephone terminal serving as a source, when an outgoing request of emergency notification to the second communication network is generated in the telephone terminals, selects a connection apparatus which is closest to the telephone terminal serving as the source based on the reference result, and executes outgoing control from the selected connection apparatus to the second communication network.

2. The server apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a acquiring unit to acquire the terminal ID of the telephone terminal and the position information, to record the terminal ID and the position information on the management table, when position information is input in an active state of the connection apparatus to the telephone terminal.

3. The server apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the acquiring unit acquires the connection ID of the connection apparatus and the position information and records the connection ID and the position information on the management table in an active state of the connection apparatus to the first communication network.

4. The server apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an interface which connects a operator terminal which receives an outgoing request of the emergency notification, and executes substitutional outgoing,

wherein the controller transfers the outgoing request to the operator terminal, when the position information of the telephone terminal serving as the source or the position information of the connection apparatus for outgoing cannot be acquired from the reference result of the management table.