公开(公告)号：US07110390B1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-19

申请号：US09294475

申请日：1999-04-20

Applicant: Kevin Gatesman

Inventor： Kevin Gatesman

IPC: H04L12/66 ,  H04L12/28

CPC classification number: H04L65/1026 ,  H04L12/2898 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/06027 ,  H04L65/1036

Abstract: Instead of having to subscribe to multiple telephone lines for multiple devices that a user has, a module of the present invention can connect each of the user's devices to an outside communications network using the same telephone line. Such multiple inside connections to the outside communication network using the same telephone line is achieved by provisioning within the invention module the appropriate telephone and computer interface units for the user's telephones and computers, and an appropriate network interface unit for connection to the telephone line that connects the invention module to the external communications network. The module of the instant invention is further provisioned with an IP routing submodule that communicatively connects the various interface units together by managing the addressing of the data that traverses between the outside network and the devices of the user, by routing the appropriate data packets to the appropriate devices by means of pseudo internal IP addresses assigned to the various devices of the user. Other components within the module convert those data packets that are a part of a voice signal into the appropriate analog signal for output to the telephone of the user. Conversely, such components convert any analog input from the user into a corresponding digital signal that is packetized and output to the external communications network.

Abstract translation: 不用必须为用户拥有的多个设备订阅多条电话线，本发明的模块可以使用相同的电话线将每个用户的设备连接到外部通信网络。 通过在本发明模块内提供用于用户的电话和计算机的适当的电话和计算机接口单元以及用于连接到连接的电话线的适当的网络接口单元来实现使用相同电话线的对外部通信网络的这种多个内部连接 本发明模块到外部通信网络。 本发明的模块还被配置有IP路由子模块，其通过管理通过外部网络和用户的设备之间的数据的寻址来通信地将各个接口单元通信地连接在一起，通过将适当的数据分组路由到 通过分配给用户的各种设备的伪内部IP地址的适当的设备。 模块内的其他组件将作为语音信号的一部分的数据包转换成适当的模拟信号，以输出给用户的电话。 相反，这样的组件将来自用户的任何模拟输入转换成分组化并输出到外部通信网络的相应数字信号。