COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20080101564A1
• Filed: 10/23/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: ARAKI, Motohisa
• Application Number:
  US11/877,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20080101564A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/90.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1836 with heterogeneous network architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/5018 Initiating a conference during a two-party conversation, i.e. three-party service or three-way call
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/428 Arrangements for placing incoming calls on hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4283 Call holding circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/54 Arrangements for diverting calls for one subscriber to another predetermined subscriber based on the calling party profile H04M3/42059; based on location H04M3/42348; based on presence H04M3/42365; to voice mail H04M3/53308
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/58 Arrangements for transferring received calls from one subscriber to another; Arrangements affording interim conversations between either the calling or the called party and a third party substation line holding circuits H04M1/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0093 signalling arrangements in networks

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal connected to an IP network and communicates with a second terminal through the IP network and a server apparatus including a controller that controls a communication between the first and second terminals. The first terminal includes a transmitter that transmits an instruction data for activating an additional function in response to a request operation for activating the additional function while the first terminal communicates with the second terminal. The controller of the server apparatus analyzes a received data by the server apparatus. When it is analyzed that the received data includes the instruction data for activating the additional function, the controller performs the additional function based on the instruction data.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a first terminal connected to an IP network and communicates with a second terminal through the IP network, the first terminal comprising a transmitter that transmits an instruction data for activating an additional function in response to a request operation for activating the additional function while the first terminal communicates with the second terminal; and

a server apparatus comprising a controller that controls a communication between the first and second terminals and that analyzes a received data by the server apparatus,

wherein, when it is analyzed that the received data includes the instruction data for activating the additional function, the controller performs the additional function based on the instruction data.

2. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the transmitter transmits a first instruction data for activating a consultation hold function in response to a request operation for holding the communication between the first and second terminals,

wherein the controller performs the consultation hold function based on the first instruction data.

3. The communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the first terminal transmits a second instruction data for activating a transferring function in response to a request operation for transferring to a third terminal after the request operation for holding the communication, and

wherein the controller switches a party with which the second terminal communicates from the first terminal to the third terminal based on the second instruction data.

4. The communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the transmitter transmits a second instruction data for activating a conference function in response to a request operation for adding a third terminal to the communication between the first and second terminals, after the request operation for holding the communication, and

wherein the controller adds the third terminal to the communication between the first and second terminals based on the second instruction data.

5. The communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the transmitter transmits a second instruction data for activating a special service function in response to a request operation for originating a call for a special service number after the request operation for holding the communication, and

wherein the controller performs the special service function based on the second instruction data.

6. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first terminals includes an IP terminal capable of activating the additional function.

7. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the server apparatus further comprises a storage that stores a table respectively associating terminal IDs assigned to the first and second terminals and communication protocols supported by the first and second terminals with each other, and

wherein, when the server apparatus receives the data, the server apparatus refers the table based on the terminal IDs included in the received data and performs the additional function using a reference result.

8. A server apparatus comprising:

a communication controller that controls a communication between a first terminal and a second terminal through an IP network;

a receiver that receives a data from the first terminal while the first terminal communicates with the second terminal;

an analyzing unit that analyzes the received data; and

a controller that, when it is analyzed that the received data includes an instruction data for activating an additional function, performs the additional function.

9. The server apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a storage that stores a table respectively associating terminal IDs assigned to the first and second terminals and communication protocols supported by the first and second terminals with each other,

wherein the analyzing unit refers the table based on the terminal IDs included in the received data to determine the communication protocols supported by the first and the second terminals and analyzes the received data according to the determined communication protocols, and

wherein the controller performs the additional function according to the determined communication protocol supported by the first and second terminals.