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Computer telephony (CT) network serving multiple telephone switches

  • US 6,760,427 B2
  • Filed: 06/28/2001
  • Issued: 07/06/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer telephony (CT) network for a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system network including in combination:

  • a plurality of private branch exchange (PBX) systems using a common software application and linked together through a network, each of the PBX systems having a unique address;

    a gateway processing system located on the network with one of the plurality of PBX systems, the gateway processing system having a plurality of application sockets with each application socket corresponding a CT application;

    a memory in the gateway processing system for storing a translation table identifying extension numbers on each of the PBX systems and combining these extension numbers with the unique addresses for each PBX system to provide mapping information for sending a command from any of the application sockets to a node socket for the PBX system, the node socket representing a physical location for an affected party extension number.

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