Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Daisuke Wada

Kazuo Yahiro

Takuji Tsujigawa

Toru Imamura

Yasuyuki Nishioka

Noriaki Nada

Takuji Tujigawa

Yuji Jodoi

Toshinori Yamagichi

Hidetoshi Hayashida

Takao Miyazaki

An Internet telephone apparatus which is capable of processing an Internet connection to an Internet telephone or to personal computer communications without requiring the installation of an additional public line, so that a cost for extension of a line and maintenance of the extended line can be eliminated. This Internet telephone apparatus has an incoming call determination unit for determining, based on information in a call setting message from a user, generated when a call is originated, whether the call is an incoming call directed to an access server for controlling communications such as personal computer communications or the like or an incoming call directed to an Internet telephone control unit for controlling the Internet telephone.

Internet telephone apparatus and internet telephone gateway system

An Internet phone server device includes a database storing users' telephone numbers and nearby ISPA information, a telephone number acquiring unit for acquiring the telephone number of the other party in response to user's call origination, an ISPA acquiring unit for obtaining the nearby ISPA of the terminating side from the acquired telephone number, and an ordinary public line calling unit for originating a call to a terminating Internet phone from the ISPA of the terminating side by using an ordinary public line. At an arbitrary time, the user originates a call. Even if the other-party does not communicate using IP connection, an communication can be effected.

Talking system using internet phone server devices and data communication line

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Kasuga, Japan

Daisuke Wada