COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL REGISTRATION METHOD FOR USE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20090086722A1
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaji, Takanori
• Application Number:
  US12/205,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20090086722A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2521 Translation architectures other than single NAT servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes an agent server module configured to connect to the telephone terminal connected to the public network, while bypassing the public network and the private network, and configured to receive a registration request including the terminal ID of the telephone terminal from the telephone terminal, and a controller which performs registration processing based on the registration request received by the agent server module via the bypass, and generates a session for terminal control with respect to the telephone terminal of a requester via the NAT router.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus which is connected to a private network, configured to connect to a public network arranged in a band broader than that of the private network via a network address translator (NAT) router, and configured to provide an IP telephone service to a telephone terminal accommodated by a known voice over internet protocol (VOIP) registration procedure, the communication apparatus comprising:

an agent server module configured to connect to the telephone terminal connected to the public network, while bypassing the public network and the private network, and configured to receive a registration request including the terminal ID of the telephone terminal from the telephone terminal; and

a controller which performs registration processing based on the registration request received by the agent server module via the bypass, and generates a session for terminal control with respect to the telephone terminal of a requester via the NAT router.

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

a plurality of interface modules connected to the private network,

wherein the controller selects the interface module in which the telephone terminal of the requester is accommodated based on the register, and instructs this interface module to generate the session to the telephone terminal of the requester.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller selects the interface module in which the telephone terminal of the requester is accommodated based on the resource states of the plurality of interface modules or predetermined conditions in addition to the registration request.

4. A terminal registration method for use in a communication system including a telephone terminal connected to a public network, and a communication apparatus which is connectable to this telephone terminal via a network address translator (NAT) router and a private network arranged in a band narrower than that of the public network and which provides an IP telephone service to the telephone terminal accommodated by a known voice over internet protocol (VOIP) registration procedure, the method comprising:

transmitting a registration request including terminal ID to an agent server module configured to connect to the telephone terminal, while bypassing the public network and the private network, the terminal ID specifies the telephone terminal;

transmitting the registration request to the communication apparatus in the agent server module;

performing registration processing with respect to the telephone terminal of a requester based on the registration request in the communication apparatus; and

generating a session for terminal control via the NAT router with respect to the telephone terminal of the requester.