Voice communication system over IP phone system

• US 7,990,956 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Issued: 08/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shyh-Luh Huang
• Original Assignee: Shyh-Luh Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Shyh-Luh
• Primary Examiner(s): Ryman; Daniel J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Divecha; Nishant B
• Application Number:
  US11/586,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20080101341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/353
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1026 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1053 IP private branch exchange [PBX] functionality entities or arrangements circuit switched PBXs H04M3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0069 comprising a residential gateway, e.g. those which provide an adapter for POTS or ISDN terminals

Abstract

A voice communication system configured over an IP phone system, with which users could establish voice calls between analog telephone devices and IP phones through an IP phone system without changing their conventional usage method is provided. To allow analog telephone devices to be able to login to the IP phone system, the communication mediation device is required to replace an analog telephone device by be an IP phone user in the IP phone system, and to process voice communications by using analog-digital signal conversion. Using the pre-established registration information, thus allowing the IP phone upon only determining the destination telephone number, it is then capable of automatic converting the telephone number to the corresponding IP phone account so as to proceed with a call through the IP phone system.

Claims

1. A voice communication system configured over an IP phone system, for enabling an analog telephone device and an IP phone device to perform voice communications through the IP phone system, and in the IP phone system, the IP phone device is able to receive a call corresponding to its IP phone account and to perform voice communications, the voice communication system, comprising:

a communication mediation device, electrically coupled to the analog telephone device via a Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX), comprising;

an analog-digital signal conversion module, for converting a telephone number dialed by the analog telephone device into a digital signal, and converting the digital signal from the IP phone system into an analog signal;

a conversion module, for converting the telephone number in the digital signal into the corresponding IP phone account; and

an IP phone module, for calling the IP phone device of the corresponding IP phone account through the IP phone system according to the IP phone account that is converted by the conversion module, thereby allowing the analog telephone device to proceed with voice communications with the IP phone device,

wherein the analog telephone device is an extension telephone connected to the PABX and has an extension number, and configuring a plurality of communication lines between the PABX and the analog-digital signal conversion module of the communication mediation device, and the PABX having a main switchboard number, wherein the main switchboard number having the corresponding IP phone account, and

the voice communication system, further comprising;

a master control device, comprising;

a status database, for storing a plurality of status data, wherein each status data is corresponding to each usage status of the main switchboard number corresponding to the communication lines, and the usage status is used for selection from busy and idle;

an update module, for updating the usage status of the main switchboard number corresponding to the communication lines according to a notification message from the communication mediation device;

an overflow database, for storing a plurality of overflow records, wherein each overflow record is using the main switchboard number to correspond with an overflow notification message;

an overflow module, for querying for the usage status of the communication lines corresponding to the main switchboard number based on the status data in the status database, and if their status are all busy, then updating the overflow notification message corresponding to the main switchboard number in the overflow database; and

a continuous overflow module, for querying the overflow database for the overflow notification message corresponding to the main switchboard number based on the overflow records in the overflow database, if the overflow notification messages are found at a predetermined frequency, then sending out a continuous overflow message.

2. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the voice communication system, further comprising:

the master control device, comprising;

a corresponding database, for storing a plurality of corresponding data, wherein each corresponding data is corresponding to the IP phone account using the telephone number; and

a supply module, for finding out the corresponding IP phone account from the corresponding database according to the telephone number from the conversion module, and replying the IP phone account to the conversion module.

3. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein after the conversion module, according to the telephone number, obtained the corresponding IP phone account from the supply module, the communication module is able to store the corresponding relationship between the telephone number and the IP phone account into a storage media of the communication mediation device, thereby the conversion module is able to directly convert the telephone number into the corresponding IP phone account.

4. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the IP phone module further comprising:

a conversion tool, capable of using the telephone number to obtain the corresponding IP phone account from the supply module of the master control device according to the corresponding data stored in the corresponding database of the master control device.

5. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the notification message sent by the communication mediation device is to be a dialing up or a hanging up message of the analog telephone device from the analog / digital signal conversion module or the IP phone module, or the notification message indicating when the conversion module is querying the corresponding IP phone account, according to the telephone number.

6. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the usage status of the communication lines are all busy, the master control device is to reply to the communication mediation device that the calling line of the analog telephone device is busy.

7. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein when one of the usage status of the communication lines is idle, the master control device is to reply to the communication mediation device that the calling line of the analog telephone device is idle and to reply to the corresponding IP phone account, thereby allowing the communication mediation device to connect the call of the analog telephone device.

8. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the voice communication system further comprising:

the master control device, further comprising;

a verification module, for finding out the communication lines which has expired predetermined time but is still in busy status based upon the usage status of the communication lines in the status database, and verifying whether these lines are in proper operation.

9. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the voice communication system further comprising:

the communication mediation device, further comprising;

a registration module, for collecting the registration information, wherein the registration information at least includes one of the telephone number and the main switchboard number, and the corresponding IP phone account; and

the master control device, including;

an update module, for receiving the registration information from the registration module, and then updating the corresponding data in the corresponding database.

10. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the master control device is able to receive the IP phone account and the telephone number of the registration information by receiving the text message with the IP phone account and regarding the caller ID in the text message as the telephone number.

11. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the registration module is able to collect the telephone number, the corresponding IP phone account, and the company name in the registration information that was filled by the user, and sending out using the registration interface.

12. The voice communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the IP phone module is a client program of the IP phone system and is login to the IP phone system.