METHOD FOR DIALING FROM INTERNET EXTENSION TO CONVENTIONAL EXTENSION

• US 20130279498A1
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Taipei University Of Technology
• Original Assignee: National Taipei University Of Technology
• Inventors: HWANG, Shaw Hwa, CHANG, Shun Chieh, CHEN, Kuan Lin, HUANG, Chi Jung, SHEN, Li-Te, LIU, Ben Chen, WANG, Yu Che
• Granted Patent: US 9,118,746 B2
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0024 Services and arrangements where telephone services are combined with data services arrangements which combine a telephonic equipment and a computer H04M7/0012

Abstract

A system for dialing from Internet extension of other SIP proxy server to conventional extension is disclosed. A VoIP gateway or an IP auto attendant is used for dialing from Internet extension to conventional extension. The phone number of the Private Branch Exchange and the voice guidance are not needed. The calling number of SIP message is interpreted directly and converted into DTMF (Dual-tone multi-frequency) messages for dialing into a conventional extension.

Claims

1. A system for dialing from internet extension to conventional extension, comprising:

an upper SIP proxy server;

a first lower SIP proxy server having a first switchboard telephone number and being connected with an Internet extension by Internet;

a second lower SIP proxy server having a second switchboard telephone number and being connected with a VoIP gateway by Internet;

the upper SIP proxy server is connected with the first lower SIP proxy server and the second lower SIP proxy server by Internet;

a Private Branch Exchange is connected with a conventional extension, the VoIP gateway by conventional telephone lines;

wherein the VoIP gateway has a telephone port and an Internet port, the telephone port has an FXO interface for being connected with an FXS interface of the Private Branch Exchange;

the Internet port connects with the second lower SIP proxy server by Internet;

wherein if the VoIP gateway has an FXS interface, the FXS interface is closed, an account number of an Internet telephone is set up for being registered in the second lower SIP proxy server, then a route is set up from the Internet port to the FXO port so that an SIP message entered from the Internet port can be converted into SS7 message to send out through the telephone port;

wherein when the Internet extension dials the conventional extension, just dials the second switchboard telephone number followed by a “

-” and

then a telephone number of the conventional extension,

the Internet extension issues INVITE message to the first lower SIP proxy server, the first lower SIP proxy server knows that the dialing belongs to the second lower SIP proxy server, so transmits the message to the upper SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server determines a route by the telephone number and sends the message to the second lower SIP proxy server;

after the second lower SIP proxy server receives the message, it determines that the dialing is to the conventional extension, so transmits to the VoIP gateway;

the Internet extension sends an Internet telephone message for passing through the first lower SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server, the second lower proxy server to the Internet port of the VoIP gateway;

wherein when the second lower SIP proxy server receives INVITE message issued from the Internet extension, the dialing number is analyzed to see if it belongs to a conventional extension;

if the dialing number does not belong to a conventional extension, then it is analyzed to see if it belongs to another Internet extension, if yes, then the second lower SIP proxy server issues the INVITE message to the another Internet extension, and finishes ringing, offhook, communication, onhook procedures, and then ends up the communication;

if the dialing number is not a number of an Internet extension, then the second lower SIP proxy server responds that there is no such extension, and ends up the communication;

if the dialing number is a conventional extension number, then the second lower SIP proxy server will issue INVITE message to the VoIP gateway;

and then the VoIP gateway analyzes the dialing number for passing through the telephone port to the Private Branch Exchange and then to the conventional extension;

the conventional extension returns with a conventional telephone message for passing through the Private Branch Exchange and then the telephone port, and then being converted into a corresponding Internet telephone message for sending through the Internet port and the second lower SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server, the first lower SIP proxy server to the Internet extension;

a voice packet received from the Internet port by the VoIP gateway will be converted into a voice signal for sending out through the telephone port to the Private Branch Exchange and then to the conventional extension;

a voice signal received from the telephone port will be converted into a voice packet for sending out through the Internet port to the second lower SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server, the first lower SIP proxy server and then to the Internet extension;

such that when dialing from the Internet extension to the conventional extension, just dial the second switchboard telephone number followed by a “

-” and

then a telephone number of the conventional extension, it is not necessary to dial a telephone number of the Private Branch Exchange, and no voice guidance is needed.

2. The system for dialing from internet extension to conventional extension according to claim 1, wherein the VoIP gateway can be replaced by an IP auto attendant.

3. The system for dialing from internet extension to conventional extension according to claim 2, wherein the IP auto attendant is a computer-telephone integration system comprised of a computer, a network interface controller and a telephone voice card, and an application program is designed so that when the Internet extension dials the conventional extension, the IP auto attendant receives Internet telephone messages sent from the Internet extension through the first lower SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server, the second lower SIP proxy server by the Network interface controller, analyzes the dialing number from an Internet packet, and then sends message by the telephone voice card to the conventional extension through the Private Branch Exchange;

when the telephone voice card receives a conventional telephone message returned from the conventional extension through the Private Branch Exchange, the conventional telephone message will be converted into a corresponding Internet telephone message and sent to the Internet extension through the second lower SIP proxy server, the upper SIP proxy server, the first lower SIP proxy server by the Network interface controller;

a voice packet received from the Network interface controller will be converted into a voice signal for transmission through the telephone voice card, while a voice signal received from the telephone voice card will be converted into a voice packet for transmission through the Network interface controller.