EP1180296B1

Telephony and data network services at a telephone

Abstract

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EP1180296B1, drawing sheet 1
Sheet 1 of 7

Term

Term ended

Expired 3 May 2020, 6.4 years ago.

  1. Priority
  2. Filed
  3. Granted
  4. Expired
  5. Today

7 claims: 3 independent, 4 dependent

  1. 1
    An apparatus for facilitating provision of services in an IP data network for a data network telephone, the apparatus comprising:a network intelligence for communicating IP messages to said data network telephone over the IP data network and facilitating provision of services for said data network telephone;and wherein said network intelligence comprises, at least one terminal emulator operable for emulating said data network telephone, a configuration data structure, and a first service proxy launched in response to a first input received at the data network telephone based upon information in said configuration data structure, and a second service proxy launched in response to a second input received at the data network telephone, said first service proxy operable for setting up a first service between a first data source and said data network telephone, and said second service proxy operable for setting up a second service between a second data source and said data network telephone.
  2. 5
    A computer readable medium, which when loaded into a processor connected to an IP data network to which at least one telephone is also connected, controls said processor to:based on one or more first user input messages from said telephone, launch a first service proxy in response to said one or more first user input messages received from said telephone to establish a first connection between said telephone and a first source, said one or more first user input messages from said telephone including IP messages received over the IP data network;based on one or more second user input messages from said telephone received during pendency of said first connection, launch a second service proxy in response to said one or more second input messages received from said telephone based upon information in a configuration data structure to set up at least one non-telephony data service between said telephone and at least one data source, at least where said at least one non-telephony data service does not conflict with said first connection.
  3. 7
    A method of facilitating provision of services in an IP data network for a data network telephone, the method comprising:communicating IP messages from a network intelligence to said data network telephone over the IP data network and facilitating provision of services for said data network telephone, wherein said network intelligence comprises, at least one terminal emulator operable for emulating said data network telephone, a configuration data structure, and a first service proxy;launching said first service proxy in response to a first input received at the data network telephone based upon information in said configuration data structure, said first service proxy operable for setting up a first service between a first data source and said data network telephone;and launching a second service proxy in response to a second input received at the data network telephone, said second service proxy operable for setting up a second service between a second data source and said data network telephone.