Switching system connecting a radio communication terminal via a LAN line to a public switched network or a leased line

• US 7,321,767 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2004
• Issued: 01/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Mizutani, Yousuke, Chimura, Yasubumi, Araki, Yumiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehrpour; Naghmeh
• Application Number:
  US11/018,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20050143063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.1, 455/552.1, 455/422, 4554561-4563, 455/403, 455/558.1, 455/410, 455/415, 455/426.2, 455/432.1, 455/435.1, 455/557, 455/456.6, 455/41, 455/436, 455/556.1
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1091 Fixed mobile conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42263 where the same subscriber uses different terminals, i.e. nomadism
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42314 in private branch exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0069 comprising a residential gateway, e.g. those which provide an adapter for POTS or ISDN terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/08 Mobility data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A telephone switching system includes a position information management database and a call conversion controller. On receiving number conversion information from an adapter having a radio communication terminal connected, the database registers an identification number assigned to the adapter and terminal information particular to the communication terminal in one-to-one correspondence, thereby managing the position of the communication terminal. When a call is originated on a telephone terminal interconnected thereto or a communication terminal having a voice communication function interconnected to its LAN system, the call conversion controller searches the database on the basis of a destination number and substitutes, if terminal information corresponding to the destination number is found out in the database, the identification number of the adapter corresponding to the terminal information for the destination number to process call switching.

Claims

1. A switching system having a LAN (Local Area Network) line connectable to a radio communication terminal, which effects radio communication to either one of a public switched network line and a leased network line, for executing call switching, comprising:

a telephone switching system accommodating the public switched network line and the LAN line for executing the call switching; and

a terminal adapter for effecting communication to the LAN line when directly connecting the radio communication terminal, said terminal adapter delivering, while connecting said radio communication terminal, being supplied with electric power from said radio communication terminal and then detecting the connection of the radio communication terminal, number conversion information including terminal information stored in the radio communication terminal and an identification number assigned to said terminal adapter to said telephone switching system, and effecting communication on the LAN line between the radio communication terminal and said telephone switching system;

said terminal adapter comprising;

a voice controller for executing voice control on a basis of control information for a voice processing system, which is received from the radio communication terminal, to hold voice communication on the LAN line between the radio communication terminal and said telephone switching system;

said telephone switching system comprising;

a position information manager for registering, on receiving the number conversion information from said terminal adapter over the LAN line, the identification number of said terminal adapter and the terminal information of the radio communication terminal included in said number conversion information in one-to-one correspondence for thereby managing position information of the radio communication terminal connected to said terminal adapter; and

a switching controller for searching, on receiving a call originated on either one of a telephone terminal accommodated in said switching system and an accommodated communication terminal having a voice communication function and interconnected to the LAN line, said position information manager for the terminal information in accordance with a destination number and substituting, if the terminal information matching with the destination number is present in said position information manager, the identification number of said terminal adapter matching with the terminal information for the destination number to thereby control call switching.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said terminal adapter connects at least one of the telephone terminal and the accommodated communication terminal and provides said telephone switching system with the number conversion information, including an identification number of one of the telephone terminal and the accommodated communication terminal which is designated as a transfer destination,

said switching controller substituting, on detecting a call addressed to the radio communication terminal, the identification number of the one terminal designated as the transfer destination for the destination number to thereby controlling the call switching.

3. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein, on detecting disconnection of the radio communication terminal from said terminal adapter, said switching controller deletes or invalidates the number conversion information registered at said position information manager.

4. The system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a position information requesting section connected to the LAN line for requesting said telephone switching system to send out the position information registered at said position information manager;

said telephone switching system further comprising a registered information provider for providing, in response to a request from said position information requesting section, said position information requesting section with at least part of the position information registered at said position information manager.

5. A terminal adapter, which effects communication to a LAN (Local Area Network) line, connectable directly to a radio communication terminal effecting radio communication to either one of a public switched network line and a leased network line, supplied with electric power from the terminal and then detecting the connection of the terminal while connecting said terminal, for allowing the radio communication terminal to be accommodated in a telephone switching system, comprising:

a connector connectable directly to at least one radio communication terminal;

a communication controller for controlling communication with the LAN (Local Area Network) line;

a number conversion information sending section for receiving terminal information from the radio communication terminal connected to said connector, and providing said telephone switching system with number conversion information, which includes at least the terminal information and identification information assigned to said terminal adapter, via the LAN line; and

a voice controller for executing voice control on a basis of control information for a voice processing system, which is received from the radio communication terminal, to hold voice communication on the LAN line between the radio communication terminal and said telephone switching system.

6. The adapter in accordance with claim 5, wherein the LAN line comprises an analog line, said communication controller executing communication control adaptive to said analog line.

7. The adapter in accordance with claim 5, wherein said terminal adapter has a LAN line side connected to an accommodated communication terminal having a voice communication function,

said communication controller providing the accommodated communication terminal with voice data obtained from the radio communication terminal and the terminal information of the radio communication terminal.

8. The adapter in accordance with claim 5, further comprising a transfer destination designator for obtaining, after the radio communication terminal has been connected to said terminal adapter, a designation of at least one of a telephone terminal and the accommodated communication terminal as a transfer destination;

said number conversion information sending section providing said telephone switching system with, as a part of the number conversion information, an identification number of the one terminal designated by said transfer destination designator.

9. A radio communication terminal, which effects radio communication to either one of a public switched network line and a leased network line, connectable directly to a terminal adapter capable of being accommodated by a telephone switching system via a LAN (Local Area Network) line, supplied with electric power from the terminal and then detecting the connection of the terminal while connecting said terminal, comprising:

a connector connectable directly to the terminal adapter;

a voice processor for executing voice processing; and

a controller for detecting connection of said radio communication terminal to the terminal adapter, disabling a radio communication section connectable to either one of a public switched network line and a leased network line and making said voice processor and the terminal adapter connectable to each other.

10. A program for connecting a radio communication terminal, which effects radio communication to a public switched network line or a leased network line, to a terminal adapter, which effects communication to a LAN (Local Area Network) line, for the radio communication terminal to thereby cause the radio communication terminal to be accommodated in a telephone switching system via the terminal adapter and the LAN line, said program being runnable on a processor system included in either one of the radio communication terminal and the terminal adapter to implement:

a communication control function, when directly connecting the radio communication terminal and the terminal adapter to supply said terminal adapter with electric power from said radio communication terminal and then to detect the connection between the terminal adapter and said radio communication terminal, for allowing communication to be held on the LAN line between the radio communication terminal and the telephone switching system on a basis of control information of a voice processing system of the radio communication terminal; and

a number conversion information sending function for providing the telephone switching system with number conversion information including at least terminal information particular to the radio communication terminal and an identification number assigned to the terminal adapter via the LAN line.

11. The program in accordance with claim 10, wherein said terminal adapter has a LAN (Local Area Network) line side connected to an accommodated communication terminal having a voice communication function,

said communication control function providing the accommodated communication terminal with voice data and the terminal information from the radio communication terminal.

12. The program in accordance with claim 10, further comprising a transfer destination designating function for receiving, after connection of the radio communication terminal to the terminal adapter, a designation indicative of at least either one of a telephone terminal and an accommodated communication terminal connected to the terminal adapter,

said number conversion sending function adding a LAN identification number assigned to the at least one terminal designated by said transfer destination designating function to the number conversion information, and sending out the number conversion information to the telephone switching system.