IP telephone repeater, IP telephone repeating system and IP telephone repeating method

• US 8,111,703 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2007
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nemoto, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Chirag
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rivas, Salvador E
• Application Number:
  US11/790,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20070286167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,749 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

An IP telephone repeater includes a first communication portion connected to an internet IP telephone network, a second communication portion connected to a local area IP telephone network, and a call controller which supplies, upon receipt of an incoming call via the first communication portion from the internet IP telephone network, a jingle signal to the incoming call and to a plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion, and which supplies a holding tone to the incoming call and supplies the jingle signal to the plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion in the case where a response operation of a non-audio terminal connected to the second communication portion is conducted.

Claims

1. An IP telephone repeater comprising:

a first communication portion configured to connect an incoming call from an internet IP telephone network to a local area IP telephone network, the local area IP telephone network including a plurality of terminals;

a second communication portion connected to the local area IP telephone network; and

a call controller configured to detect the incoming call and,

upon the detection of the incoming call, supply a jingle signal to the incoming call and to the plurality of terminals and a non-audio terminal connected to the second communication portion, and

after the detection of the incoming call and upon receiving an indication of a wait operation from a remote control device associated with the non-audio terminal, supply a tone to the incoming call,

wherein the tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold, and supply the jingle signal to said plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion.

2. The IP telephone repeater according to claim 1, wherein the non-audio terminal is a device connected to a network which does not enable a telephone call.

3. The IP telephone repeater according to claim 1, wherein the tone includes a tone message with respect to the incoming call.

4. An IP telephone repeater comprising:

a first communication portion configured to connect an incoming call from an internet IP telephone network to a local area IP telephone network, the local area IP telephone network including a plurality of terminals;

a second communication portion connected to the local area IP telephone network; and

a call controller configured to detect the incoming call and, upon receipt the detection of the incoming call, supply a jingle signal to the incoming call and to the plurality of terminals,

after the detection of the incoming call and upon receipt of a response indication to set a call execution state from an audio terminal included in the plurality of terminals, supply a telephone call tone to the incoming call, and

upon receiving indication of a holding operation from the audio terminal, supply a hold tone to the incoming call, wherein the hold tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold, and supply the jingle signal to said plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion.

5. The IP telephone repeater according to claim 4, wherein the call controller supplies additional information showing that the incoming call is being held, together with the jingle signal, to said plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion in the case where the holding operation is conducted by the audio terminal connected to the second communication portion.

6. An IP telephone repeating system comprising:

a plurality of IP terminals; and

an IP telephone repeater having;

a first communication portion configured to connect an incoming call from an internet IP telephone network to a local area IP telephone network, the local area IP telephone network including a plurality of terminals;

a second communication portion connected to the local area IP telephone network; and

a call controller configured to detect the incoming call and,

upon the detection of the incoming call, supply a jingle signal to the incoming call and to the plurality of terminals and a non-audio terminal connected to the second communication portion, and

after the detection of the incoming call and upon receiving an indication of a wait operation from a remote control device associated with the non-audio terminal, supply a tone to the incoming call, wherein the tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold, and supply the jingle signal to the plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion.

7. The IP repeating system according to claim 6, wherein the non-audio terminal is a device which is connected to a network which does not enable a telephone call.

8. The IP repeating system according to claim 6, wherein the tone includes a tone message with respect to the incoming call.

9. An IP telephone repeating system comprising:

a plurality of IP terminals; and

an IP telephone repeater having;

a first communication portion configured to connect an incoming call from an internet IP telephone network to a local area IP telephone network, the local area IP telephone network including a plurality of terminals;

a second communication portion connected to the local area IP telephone network; and

a call controller configured to detect the incoming call and,

upon the detection of the incoming call, supply a jingle signal to the incoming call and to the plurality of terminals,

after the detection of the incoming call and upon receipt of a response indication to set a call execution state from an audio terminal included in the plurality of terminals, supply a telephone call tone to the incoming call, and

upon receiving indication of a holding operation from the audio terminal, supply a hold tone to the incoming call, wherein the hold tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold, and supply the jingle signal to said plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion.

10. The IP telephone repeating system according to claim 9, wherein the call controller supplies additional information showing that the incoming call is being held, together with the jingle signal, to said plurality of terminals connected to the second communication portion in the case where the holding operation is conducted by the audio terminal connected to the second communication portion.

11. An IP telephone repeating method between a terminal of an internet IP telephone network and a terminal of a local area IP telephone network, the method comprising:

detecting an incoming call from the terminal of the internet IP telephone network;

supplying, after detecting the incoming call, a jingle signal to the incoming call and to a plurality of terminals and a non-audio terminal on the local area IP telephone network;

supplying, upon receiving indication of a wait operation from a remote control device associated with the non-audio terminal, a tone to the incoming call, wherein the tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold; and

supplying the jingle signal to said plurality of terminals of the local area IP telephone network.

12. An IP telephone repeating method between a terminal of an internet IP telephone network and a terminal of a local area IP telephone network, the method comprising:

detecting an incoming call from the terminal of the internet IP telephone network;

supplying, after detecting the incoming call, a jingle signal to the incoming call and to an audio terminal included in the plurality of terminals of the local area IP telephone network;

supplying, after the detection of the incoming call and upon receipt of a response operation to set a call execution state from the audio terminal, a telephone call tone to the incoming call and to the plurality of terminals;

supplying, upon receiving indication of a holding operation from the audio terminal, a hold tone to the incoming call, wherein the hold tone provides an indication that the incoming call is on hold; and

supplying the jingle signal to said plurality of terminals of the local area IP telephone network.