Method and apparatus for masking the reporting of network telephony events to a computer

US5581608A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rolm Systems · US

Inventors

• Elie Antoun Jreij · Pflugerville, US
• Tave P. Dunn · Austin, US
• Michael Horowitz · Austin, US
• Peter E. Gersing · Cupertino, US
• Robert D. Whittington · Austin, US
• Werner Huber · Witzenhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 1995
• Grant date: Dec 3, 1996
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2213/216
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method apparatus for selectively passing various types of telephony information between a data communications port on a digital telephone and a computer run application program. In one embodiment, the application program can select a subset of telephony events by way of a telephony command to the telephone's data communication port. This command is processed by a telephony command processor within the data communications controller which, in turn, sets a programmable event mask within the telephone. In response to the event mask being set, only the selected telephony events are spontaneously reported to the host computer and application program.