Abstract:
A method is presented comprising transmitting, from an application computer communicably connected to a gatekeeper which is connected to a data network, packetized messages indicative of telephone calls in progress at an endpoint of the data network, or indicative of such endpoint, and transmitting, from the gatekeeper to the application computer, packetized messages indicative of a variety of information contained in the telephone calls so as to process such information for a variety of applications. Apparatus to implement the method is also presented.