Terminal device and method for exchanging VoIP signaling

• US 9,215,257 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chang, Yao-Wen, Hsu, Shin-Hsin
• Primary Examiner(s): Alia, Curtis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Latorre, Ivan O
• Application Number:
  US13/873,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20140146712A1
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 370259-271, 370/352, 370/356, 370/401, 455/414.1, 455415-417, 455/435.1, 455/518, 455/519, 455/434, 709201-207, 709/224, 709/227, 709/229, 379/93.05, 379/179, 379/185, 379/201.02, 379/201.03, 37920705-20709, 379/207.16, 379/252
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2535 adapted for voice communication over an Internet Protocol [IP] network Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network equipment and services H04M7/006; implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16

Abstract

A terminal device capable of creating a group for allowing other terminal devices to join the group is provided. When a terminal device not belonging to the group calls a terminal device in the group, any of the terminal devices in the group can answer the call in response a user input. A method for exchanging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) signaling between the terminal devices within the group is also provided.

Claims

1. A terminal device in communication with a plurality of other terminal devices and a dynamic domain name service (DDNS) server over a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, each of the other terminal devices and the terminal device comprising a registration module operable to transmit a domain name and an IP address to the DDNS server to register in the DDNS server, the terminal device further comprising:

at least one processor;

an IP address querying module operable by the processor to obtain an input telephone number, generate a domain name corresponding to the telephone number according to a preset rule, and query the DDNS server for an IP address corresponding to the generated domain name;

a group creating module operable by the processor to generate a request to join a group created by a terminal device having the input telephone number, and transmit the request to the terminal device having the input telephone number, the request comprising the domain name and the IP address of the terminal device; and

the group creating module operable by the processor further to create a group in response to user input, determine whether or not to allow one of the other terminal devices to join the group according to input by user prompted when receiving a request to join the group from the one of the other terminal devices, add the one of the other terminal devices to the group by storing the domain name and the IP address of one of the other terminal devices when user selection for allowing the one of the other terminal devices to join the group is made, and further to transmit the domain names and the IP addresses of terminal devices in the group to the one of the other terminal devices; and

a signaling exchanging module operable by the processor to receive a first invitation for establishing a VoIP communication from a calling terminal device which not belonging to the group, and transmit a second invitation to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices that a call is initiated;

wherein the signaling exchanging module further to transmit a confirmation response to the calling terminal device to establish the VoIP communication, and transmit a cancel signal to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices to stop ringing when the terminal device answers the call.

2. The terminal device as described in claim 1, wherein the group creating module is further operable to transmit a confirmation signal to the one of the other terminal devices to inform that the one of the other terminal device has successfully joined the group.

3. A terminal device in communication with a plurality of other terminal devices and a dynamic domain name (DDNS) server over a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, each of the other terminal devices and the terminal device comprising a registration module operable to transmit a domain name and an IP address to the DDNS server to register in the DDNS server, the terminal device further comprising:

at least one processor;

an IP address querying module operable by the processor to obtain an input telephone number, generate a domain name corresponding to the telephone number according to a preset rule, and query the DDNS server for an IP address corresponding to the generated domain name; and

a group creating module operable by the processor to generate a request to join a group created by a terminal device having the input telephone number, and transmit the request to the terminal device having the input telephone number, the request comprising the domain name and the IP address of the terminal device; and

the group creating module operable by the processor further to determine whether or not to allow one of the other terminal devices to join the group according to input by user prompted when receiving a request to join the group from the one of the other terminal devices; and

a signaling exchanging module operable by the processor to receive a first invitation for establishing a VoIP communication from a calling terminal device which not belonging to the group, and transmit a second invitation to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices that a call is initiated;

wherein the signaling exchanging module further to transmit a confirmation response to the calling terminal device to establish the VoIP communication, and transmit a cancel signal to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices to stop ringing when the terminal device answers the call.

4. The terminal device as described in claim 3, wherein the group creating module is further operable by the processor to receive the domain names and the IP addresses of other terminal devices in the group from the terminal device creating the group, and store the received domain names and the IP addresses.

5. The terminal device as described in claim 4, the signaling exchanging module operable by the processor further to transmit a ringing response to a called terminal device in the same group and ring when receiving an invitation from the called terminal device for informing that a call is initiated by a terminal device not being in the same group.

6. The terminal device as described in claim 5, wherein the signaling exchanging module is further operable to receive a cancel signal from the called terminal device and stop ringing when the called terminal device answers the call.

7. A method for exchanging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) signaling of one of a plurality of terminal devices and a dynamic domain name service (DDNS) server over a VoIP network, each of the terminal devices transmitting a domain name and an IP address to the DDNS server to register in the DDNS server, the method comprising:

creating a group by one of the plurality of terminal devices in response to user input;

obtaining the telephone number of the one of the plurality of terminal devices, generating a domain name corresponding to the telephone number according to a preset rule, and querying the DDNS server for an IP address corresponding to the generated domain name by another one of the plurality of terminal devices;

generating a request to join a group created by a terminal device having the obtained telephone number, and transmit the request to the terminal device having the obtained telephone number, the request comprising the domain name and the IP address of the another one of plurality of terminal devices;

determining whether or not to allow the other of the plurality of terminal devices to join the group according to user selection when receiving the request to join the group from the other of the plurality of terminal devices, and adding the other of the plurality of terminal devices to the group by storing the domain name and the IP address of the other of the plurality of terminal devices when receiving a user selection for allowing the other of the plurality of terminal devices to join the group is made by the one of the plurality of terminal devices;

transmitting the domain names and the IP addresses of terminal devices in the group to the other of the plurality of terminal devices by the one of the plurality of terminal devices;

storing the received domain names and the IP addresses by the other of the plurality of terminal devices;

receiving a first invitation for establishing a VoIP communication from a calling terminal device which not belonging to the group;

transmitting a second invitation to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices that a call is initiated; and

transmitting a confirmation response to the calling terminal device to establish the VoIP communication, and transmitting a cancel signal to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices to stop ringing when the terminal device answers the call.

8. The method as described in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving an input called telephone number which belongs to one of the terminal device in the group, generating a domain name corresponding to the called telephone number according to the preset rule, and querying the DDNS server for an IP address corresponding to the called domain name via a calling terminal device which does not belong to the group;

transmitting a first invitation to the called terminal device according to the IP address received from the DDNS server via the calling terminal device;

transmitting a ringing response to the calling terminal device, and transmitting a second invitation to the other terminal devices in the group to inform the other terminal devices in the group that a call is initiated by the calling terminal device via the called terminal device when the called terminal device receiving the first invite;

receiving a ringing response from the other terminal devices in the group via the called terminal device; and

answering the call via either of the terminal devices in the group in response to user input.