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System and method for simulating telephone use in a network telephone system

  • US 6,487,196 B1
  • Filed: 05/29/1998
  • Issued: 11/26/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a network-based telephone system comprising a calling telecommunications device communicably connected to a packet-based network to communicate with a called telecommunications device, a method for simulating a typical plain old telephone system (POTS) connection for a user of said telecommunications device, the method comprising the steps of:

  • detecting a condition in a telephone connection between said calling telecommunications device and said at least one called telecommunications devices, the condition selected from the group consisting of an off-hook condition, a dialing condition, an error condition, a satisfactory condition, a silence condition, and a hook-on condition;

    generating a sound in response to said condition by inserting sound data streams into the telephone connection that simulate a corresponding POTS sound when a POTS condition corresponding to said condition exists in said typical POTS telephone connection; and

    communicating the sound on said telephone connection.

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