Communicating network resource locators to customer premises equipment using modified ring access

US6304651A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nortel Networks Limited · CA

Inventors

• Seth Whitney Cramer · Calgary, CA
• Bertrand Michaud · Calgary, CA
• Charles Gerald Rohs · Calgary, CA
• Daniel John Paslawski · Calgary, CA
• Qi Li · New Providence, US
• Kevin Chi Hin Lo · Calgary, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 16, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M2201/38
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for downloading a file to a subscriber telephone. The system includes a modified ring access server for producing a modified ring access message including a first network resource locator, a central office service unit for producing a modified ring access connection message including the first network resource locator, in response to the modified ring access message and for representing the modified ring access connection message by an FSK message, a central office switch operable to establish a connection to the subscriber telephone in response to the modified ring access connection message and for transmitting the FSK message to the subscriber telephone, a first network resource operable to provide the file to the subscriber telephone and a remotely configurable subscriber telephone operable to receive the FSK message and to download the file from the first network resource in response to the first uniform resource locator.