SERVER APPARATUS

• US 20080123633A1
• Filed: 11/13/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shima, Koji, Fukazawa, Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US11/939,266
• Publication Number:
  US 20080123633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a participation registration table in which each telephone ID of a first telephone terminal, a second telephone terminal and a third telephone terminal among the plurality of telephone terminals is associated with participation information showing the fact of participation in a conference by a paging function of supplying voice signals to the first, second and third telephone terminals, a receiver which receives a information event showing the paging function, and a controller which refers to the participation registration table based on the telephone IDs included in the information event, and makes communication connections among the data terminals associated with the telephone IDs of the first, the second and the third telephone terminals, respectively, based on a reference result of the participation registration table.

Claims

1. A server apparatus which receives call information event including telephone IDs specifying a plurality of telephone terminals to be brought into call connections and relates communication connections at a plurality of data terminals associated with the plurality of telephone IDs of the plurality of telephone terminals, respectively, to the call connections, comprising:

a memory which stores a participation registration table in which each telephone ID of a first telephone terminal, a second telephone terminal and a third telephone terminal among the plurality of telephone terminals is associated with participation information showing the fact of participation in a conference by a paging function of supplying voice signals to the first, second and third telephone terminals, to perform the paging function of supplying voice signal in one direction from the first telephone terminal to the second and the third telephone terminals;

a receiver which receives a information event showing the paging function; and

a controller which refers to the participation registration table based on the telephone IDs included in the information event when the receiver receives the information event, and makes communication connections among the data terminals associated with the telephone IDs of the first, the second and the third telephone terminals, respectively, based on a reference result of the participation registration table.

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

an updating unit which updates the participation registration table to associate a telephone ID of a fourth telephone terminal not registered in the participation registration information table with the participation information, when a registration request is made from the fourth telephone terminal to the participation registration table.

3. The server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller includes a determining unit to determine whether or not the telephone IDs of the first, the second and the third telephone terminals are registered in the participation registration table to perform the paging function, when the receiver receives the information event, and

a unit to make communication connections among the data terminals associated with the registered telephone IDs based on a determination result of the determining unit.

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

an interface which connects a telephone exchange apparatus to perform exchange processing among the plurality of telephone terminals, wherein

the receiver receives the information event to be noticed from the telephone exchange apparatus via the interface,

the controller refers to the participation table based on the information event, and makes communication connections among the data terminals associated with the telephone IDs of the first, the second and the third telephone terminals, respectively, based on the reference result.

5. The server apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the controller updates the participation registration table to associate a telephone ID of a fourth telephone terminal not registered in the participation registration information table with the participation information, when a registration request is made from the fourth telephone terminal to the participation registration table in a state in which a communication connection related to the paging function is established among the first data terminal associated with the telephone ID of the first telephone terminal and the second and the third telephone terminals associated with each telephone ID of the second and the third telephone terminals.

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

an interface which connects a broadcast processing unit to perform communication connection processing among the plurality of data terminals, wherein

the controller makes the broadcast processing unit perform the communication connections among the data terminals associated with the telephone IDs of the first, the second and the third telephone terminals, respectively, via the interface.

7. The server apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the controller updates the participation registration table to associate the telephone ID of the fourth telephone terminal with the participation information and transmits session control instruction information necessary to perform a communication connection of a fourth terminal to be associated with the fourth telephone ID of the fourth telephone terminal to the broadcast processing unit via the interface, when a registration request is made from the fourth telephone terminal not registered in the participation registration table to the participation registration table in a state in which a communication connection related to the paging function is established among the first data terminal associated with the telephone ID of the first telephone terminal and the second and the third telephone terminals associated with each telephone ID of the second and the third telephone terminals.

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

a connecting unit which makes the telephone exchange apparatus perform call connections among the first, the second and the third telephone terminals by a paging function, when an execution request of paging function is generated from the first terminal associated with the telephone ID of the first telephone terminal, the execution request specifying a second and a third terminals to be associated with the telephone IDs of the second and the third telephone terminals.