Self-installable and portable voice telecommunication service
First Claim
1. An arrangement for providing self-provisioned telecommunication service, the arrangement comprisinga telephony adapter device, coupled at a subscriber location to a conventional telephone, said telephony adapter coupled to both a telecommunications voice network and a data network, said telephony adapter identified unique information and used to establish both half-duplex and full-duplex telecommunication connections between the connected to conventional telephone and said telecommunications voice network;
- and a provisioning database, coupled to the data network, said database comprising subscriber records for self-provisioned service, each record including a local telephone number associated with each subscriber and the unique MAC address of the associated telephony adapter.
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Abstract
An architecture and technique for creating self-installable and portable telephony (dial tone) service that can be moved between any two locations that has access to both a voice communication network and a data network. A telephony adapter is used as a subscriber premises device that is connected between a conventional telephone set and both a voice network and a data network. A provisioning server communicates with the telephony adapter through the data network and maintains a record of the subscriber'"'"'s local telephone number and IP address of the telephony adapter. As the subscriber moves from one location to another, the telephony adapter (once turned “on”) will communicate with the provisioning server and re-establish phone service, always using the same local phone number of the subscriber.
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1. An arrangement for providing self-provisioned telecommunication service, the arrangement comprising
a telephony adapter device, coupled at a subscriber location to a conventional telephone, said telephony adapter coupled to both a telecommunications voice network and a data network, said telephony adapter identified unique information and used to establish both half-duplex and full-duplex telecommunication connections between the connected to conventional telephone and said telecommunications voice network; - and
a provisioning database, coupled to the data network, said database comprising subscriber records for self-provisioned service, each record including a local telephone number associated with each subscriber and the unique MAC address of the associated telephony adapter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of provisioning dial-tone anywhere (DTA) telephone service using a telephony adapter device at a subscriber location, the telephony adapter device identified by unique information and connected to a conventional telephone and coupled to both a voice telecommunications network and a data network, the provisioning method comprising the steps of:
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a) transmitting a standard DHCP discovery message from the telephony adapter to a data network DHCP;
b) receiving, at the telephony adapter, a public IP address;
c) transmitting a service request from the telephony adapter to a DTA provisioning server coupled to the data network, the request comprising the unique identifying information and the public IP address associated with the telephony adapter;
d) forwarding, from the DTA provisioning server to a dynamic domain name server, the unique identifying information and IP address of the telephony adapter;
e) transmitting a configuration file to the telephony adapter, the configuration file including the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) and port number of a DTA call management system;
f) transmitting, from the telephony adapter to the DTA call management system, an initiation request to begin telephony service using the addressed telephony adapter. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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