User programming system using web server for private branch exchange

• US 7,321,944 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2001
• Issued: 01/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Seung-Ku, Kang, Uk-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen; Alan S.
• Application Number:
  US09/809,489
• Publication Number:
  US 20020062362A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,504 Days
• Field of Search: 709220-223
• US Class Current: 710/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/22 Arrangements for supervision, monitoring or testing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42314 in private branch exchanges
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4234 Remote access to features of PBX or home telephone systems-teleworking in a PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/009 in systems involving PBX or KTS networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13093 Personal computer, PC
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13106 Microprocessor, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13109 Initializing, personal profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13199 Modem, modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1322 PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13224 Off-net subscriber, dial in to/out from network, teleworking
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/62 for connecting to private branch exchanges

Abstract

A user programming system using a web server for a PBX is provided. A user program is loaded in the web server via a LAN interface. When necessary, a client accesses the web server by a general web browser and updates the user program on line or off line.

Claims

1. A user programming system for a PBX (Private Branch Exchange), the system comprising:

a connection board located at the PBX with a unique IP (Internet Protocol) address and connected to an Internet; and

a web server being coupled to a remote client, the web server connected to the PBX through the Internet, for managing a database of the PBX of a user program for the PBX,

wherein the remote client programs the PBX through the web server when the web server authorizes the remote client to update the database through a predetermined authentication procedure, and the web server uploads the database to the PBX upon receipt of an upload request for the database from the client.

2. The user programming system of claim 1, wherein the IP is a Point to Point to Point Protocol (PPP).

3. A user programming method for a key phone system, the method comprising:

connecting a Local Area Network (LAN) connection board to the Internet;

connecting a remote client to the Internet;

connecting a web server, through the Internet, to the LAN connection board and the remote client;

programming a destination PBX (Private Branch Exchange) by the remote client through the web server by authorizing the web server to update a database system in the destination PBX after a predetermined authentication procedure; and

generating an upload request of the updated database to upload the database of the key phone system from the web server to the destination PBX.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the LAN connection board is connected to the Internet by routing.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the remote client is connected to the Internet through the LAN connection board to execute a remote program for a Personal Computer Man Machine Communication (PCMMC).

6. A method for sending a message by utilizing a user program for a PBX (Private Branch Exchange), the method comprising the steps of:

connecting a Local Area Network (LAN) connection board in the PBX to a web server through the Internet;

requesting access to the web server, by an Internet Protocol (IP) of the web server, to execute a Personal Computer Man Made Communications (PCMMC);

authenticating, by utilizing the web server, access to the web server;

selecting an intended PBX site with a PBX for programming;

connecting a remote client to a database of the intended PBX site for programming the intended PBX site;

updating the database and storing the updated database; and

programming the intended PBX site by the remote client by requesting the web server to upload the updated database from the web server to the intended PBX site whereby the updated database is transferred to the PBX of the intended PBX site.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the PCMMC can be implemented through the web server at a remote location.