CD-ROM on which a program for functioning as an IP telephone terminal is recorded, management server, operation server, and IP telephone terminal setup method

• US 20050220083A1
• Filed: 03/30/2005
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yoji Takeuchi
• Original Assignee: Yoji Takeuchi
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Yoji
• Granted Patent: US 7,742,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4406 Loading of operating system
• 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: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1106 Call signalling protocols; H.323 and related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• 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 CD-ROM that records programs for setting up a general-purpose computer as an IP telephone terminal by using a CPU, a memory, an input, a network card, a sound card, and a CD-ROM drive except an HD drive, the program including parts for: making the computer start to deploy the programs in the CD-ROM over the memory by a CD-ROM boot method without booting from an HD; making the computer obtain user identification data respectively and correspondingly inputted by the users through the input; making the computer send the user identification data to a management server via a network based on a location data recorded onto the CD-ROM; making the computer receive an IP telephone terminal setup data sent from the management server via the network; and making the computer function as an IP telephone terminal by setting up the computer as such.

Claims

1. A CD-ROM having programs recorded to set up a general-purpose computer as an IP telephone terminal by using at least a CPU, a memory, an input means, a network card, a sound card, and a CD-ROM drive except an HD drive, comprising:

a part for making a general-purpose computer get started by initiating the general-purpose computer with the CD-ROM set at the CD-ROM drive to deploy the program recorded on the CD-ROM over the memory by the CD-ROM boot method without a hard disk; and

a part for making the general-purpose computer obtain a user identification data which respectively corresponds to users and which is inputted by a user through the input means;

a part for making the general-purpose computer send thus obtained user identification data to a management server via a network, based on a location data recorded on the CD-ROM to designate the location of the management server;

a part for making the general-purpose computer receive an IP telephone terminal setup data including an IP telephone terminal identification data uniquely corresponding to the user identification data which is sent from the management server via the network; and

a part for making the general-purpose computer function as an IP telephone terminal by setting up the general-purpose computer as an IP telephone terminal with the programs without the HD drive.

2. The CD-ROM according to claim 1, wherein a location data is included in the IP telephone terminal setup data, in order for designating a location of an operation server used for telephone switching, and further including:

a part for making the CPU send the IP telephone terminal identification data to the operation server via the network, based on the location data of the operation server in order to register the general-purpose computer as the IP telephone terminal.

3. The CD-ROM according to claim 2, further comprising:

a part for making the IP telephone terminal obtain from the operation server a call designation data for designating either another IP telephone terminal which is connected to the network and registered in the operation server or a public stationed telephone which is connected to the network via a gateway and registered in the operation server; and

a part for making the IP telephone terminal display the call designation data on its browser, in order for the user to be able to select the call designation data with the input means.

4. The management server connected to the general-purpose computers via the network, which are started up by the CD-ROMs according to claim 1, comprising:

a database for registering a plurality of the user identification data and the IP telephone terminal identification data corresponding to each of the specific user identification data; and

setup data transmission means for the management server to send via the network the IP telephone terminal setup data including the IP telephone terminal identification data, comprising;

a part for making the management server receive the user identification data sent from the general-purpose computer via the network; and

a part for making the management server obtain from the database the IP telephone terminal identification data respectively corresponding to the user identification data.

5. The operation server connected via the network to the general-purpose computers started up by the CD-ROMs according to claim 2 comprising:

a database for registering a plurality of the IP telephone terminal identification data and the call designation data corresponding to each of the IP telephone terminal identification data; and

registration means for registering the general-purpose computer as the IP telephone terminal in case that the IP telephone terminal identification data is registered in the database, comprising;

a part for making the operation server receive the IP telephone terminal identification data sent from the general-purpose computer via the network.

6. The operation server according to claim 5, further comprising:

transmission means of the designated data for sending the call designation data registered in the call designation data control database via the network toward the general-purpose computer registered as the IP telephone terminal.

8. The management server connected to the general-purpose computers via the network, which are started up by the CD-ROMs according to claim 2, comprising:

a database for registering a plurality of the user identification data and the IP telephone terminal identification data corresponding to each of the specific user identification data; and

setup data transmission means for the management server to send via the network the IP telephone terminal setup data including the IP telephone terminal identification data, comprising;

a part for making the management server receive the user identification data sent from the general-purpose computer via the network; and

a part for making the management server obtain from the database the IP telephone terminal identification data respectively corresponding to the user identification data.

9. The management server connected to the general-purpose computers via the network, which are started up by the CD-ROMs according to claim 3, comprising:

a database for registering a plurality of the user identification data and the IP telephone terminal identification data corresponding to each of the specific user identification data; and

setup data transmission means for the management server to send via the network the IP telephone terminal setup data including the IP telephone terminal identification data, comprising;

a part for making the management server receive the user identification data sent from the general-purpose computer via the network; and

a part for making the management server obtain from the database the IP telephone terminal identification data respectively corresponding to the user identification data.

10. The operation server connected via the network to the general-purpose computers started up by the CD-ROMs according to claim 3 comprising:

a database for registering a plurality of the IP telephone terminal identification data and the call designation data corresponding to each of the IP telephone terminal identification data; and

registration means for registering the general-purpose computer as the IP telephone terminal in case that the IP telephone terminal identification data is registered in the database, comprising;

a part for making the operation server receive the IP telephone terminal identification data sent from the general-purpose computer via the network.

11. The operation server according to claim 10, further comprising:

transmission means of the designated data for sending the call designation data registered in the call designation data control database via the network toward the general-purpose computer registered as the IP telephone terminal.

7. An IP telephone terminal setup method to register as an IP telephone terminal using a general-purpose computer including at least a CPU, a memory, an input means, a network card, a sound card, and a CD-ROM drive comprising steps of,

making the CD-ROM be set at the CD-ROM drive to allow the general-purpose computer function as the IP telephone terminal with the program recorded on the CD-ROM without using a hard disk:

making the general-purpose computer start to deploy the program recorded on the CD-ROM over the memory without a hard disk in the way of CD-ROM boot at the timing of command to initiate the general-purpose computer;

making the general-purpose computer obtain a user identification data corresponding to respective users, which is inputted by a user through the input means;

making the general-purpose computer send thus obtained user identification data to a management server via a network, based on a location data recorded on the CD-ROM as the location information of the management server;

making the management server receive the user identification information sent from the general-purpose computer via the network;

making the management server send to the general-purpose computer via a network both of an IP telephone terminal identification data uniquely corresponding to the user identification data and an IP telephone terminal setup data including a location data designating the location of an operation server to conduct a telephone switching processing;

making the CPU of the general-purpose computer receive the IP telephone terminal setup data sent from the management server via the network; and

making the CPU of the general-purpose computer send the IP telephone terminal identification data to the operation server via the network based on the location information of the operation server, in order to register the general-purpose computer as the IP telephone terminal.