Communications terminal, a system and a method for internet/network telephony
First Claim
1. An electronic portable communications terminal for network telephony comprising:
- audio means reproducing sound on the basis of a first electrical signal and to record sound resulting in a second electrical signal, converting means converting said second electrical signal into transmission data, representing sound for transmission, in a suitable data format, and to convert received data, representing received sound, in said suitable data format into said first electrical signal, protocol means connected to said converting means and handling and controlling communication of said received and transmission data in accordance with a standardized network protocol, thereby embedding and extracting said transmission and received data, respectively, in/from a data packet format according to said standardized network protocol, and wireless near field communications means connected to said protocol means and receiving/sending said received and transmission data in said first data packet format from/to said protocol means, the near field communications means embedding said transmission data in said first data packet format received from said protocol means in a WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to extract said received data in said first data packet format from said wireless second data format, the wireless near field communications means performing wireless near field communication of said received data or said transmission data embedded in said wireless second data format with a connecting unit communicating in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to establish a connection to a network according to said standardized network protocol, whereby the resulting data exchanged between the wireless near field communication means and the connecting unit consist of packets in said first data packet format embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format.
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Abstract
A communication terminal for Internet telephony is provided that handles and control communication of data in accordance with a standardized network protocol and exchanges data with a connecting unit connected to the Internet where the resulting data exchanged between the terminal and a connecting unit consist of packets in a standardized protocol data packet format embedded in a wireless format. This provides a communications terminal which uses a network or the Internet for the transfer of digitized speech, etc., thereby achieving great economic savings. Also, the flexibility is increased with respect to wireless communication with the network or the Internet without any need for specialized equipment and functionality.
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30 Claims
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1. An electronic portable communications terminal for network telephony comprising:
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audio means reproducing sound on the basis of a first electrical signal and to record sound resulting in a second electrical signal, converting means converting said second electrical signal into transmission data, representing sound for transmission, in a suitable data format, and to convert received data, representing received sound, in said suitable data format into said first electrical signal, protocol means connected to said converting means and handling and controlling communication of said received and transmission data in accordance with a standardized network protocol, thereby embedding and extracting said transmission and received data, respectively, in/from a data packet format according to said standardized network protocol, and wireless near field communications means connected to said protocol means and receiving/sending said received and transmission data in said first data packet format from/to said protocol means, the near field communications means embedding said transmission data in said first data packet format received from said protocol means in a WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to extract said received data in said first data packet format from said wireless second data format, the wireless near field communications means performing wireless near field communication of said received data or said transmission data embedded in said wireless second data format with a connecting unit communicating in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to establish a connection to a network according to said standardized network protocol, whereby the resulting data exchanged between the wireless near field communication means and the connecting unit consist of packets in said first data packet format embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29)
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6. (canceled)
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10. A system for network telephony, the system comprising:
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a portable communications terminal comprising;
protocol means handling and controlling communication of received and transmission data in accordance with a standardized network protocol, thereby embedding and extracting said transmission and received data, respectively, in/from a first data packet format according to said standardized network protocol, and wireless near field communications means connected to said protocol means and receiving/sending said received and transmission data in said first data packet format from/to said protocol means, the near field communications means embedding said transmission data in said first data packet format received from said protocol means in a WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to extract said received data in said first data packet format from said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format, the wireless near field communications means performing wireless near field communication of said received data or said transmission data embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format with a connecting unit communicating in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to establish a connection to a network according to said standardized network protocol, whereby the resulting data exchanged between the wireless near field communication means and the connecting unit consists of packets in said first data packet format embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format, a connecting unit connected to a wireless near field communications module communicating in a WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format, the connecting unit establishing a connection to a network, a service server connected to a network, said server comprising one or more databases comprising information related to potential desired communication receivers or transmitters, said server being passing on information concerning an IP address of a desired communication receiver and establishing a direct connection between the desired communication receiver and a communication transmitter, wherein said terminal is acting as a communication transmitter or as a communication receiver within the system. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A method for network telephony comprising the steps of:
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reproducing sound on the basis of a first electrical signal and recording sound resulting in a second electrical signal, by audio means, converting said second electrical signal into transmission data, representing sound for transmission, in a suitable data format, and converting received data, representing received sound, in said suitable data format into said first electrical signal, by converting means, and handling/controlling communication of said received and transmission data in accordance with a standardized network protocol and embedding and extracting said transmission and received data, respectively, in/from a first data packet format according to said standardized network protocol, by protocol means, receiving/sending, by wireless near field communication means, of said received data or said transmission data in said first data packet format from/to said protocol means, embedding said transmission data in said first data format received from said protocol means in a WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and extracting said received data in said first data format from said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format communicating, by said wireless near field communication means of said received data or said transmission data embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format with a connecting unit communicating in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format and to establish a connection to a network according to said standardized network protocol, whereby the resulting data exchange between the wireless near field communication means and the connecting unit consist of packets in said first data packet format embedded in said WiFi or IEEE 802.11 format. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30)
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17. (canceled)
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