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Re-routing telephony communications traffic through a private branch exchange to a data network

  • US 6,307,853 B1
  • Filed: 09/25/1997
  • Issued: 10/23/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for efficiently routing telephony data over a public-switched telephone network, comprising:

  • (a) a telephony switching system to route telephony data originating from one or more originator telephone devices to one or more receiving telephone devices;

    (b) a telephony-to-data re-routing system (TDR), coupled to said telephony switching system to which the telephony data is routed by the telephone switching system, and which determines whether to send the telephony data to any of the one or more receiver telephone devices in analog or digital form, and converts the telephony data to be sent in digital form to a particular receiving telephone device to digital data and re-routes the telephony data to be sent in analog form through the telephony switching system to the PSTN; and

    (c) a computer network to which the TDR is coupled, for distributing said digital data to said one or more receiver telephone devices.

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