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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Shuang Deng, Sudbury, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An integrated network for connecting both telephones and personal computers within an organization, using a single wiring connection is disclosed. Telephones and personal computers within the organization are connected to the same local area network (LAN) which is in turn connected to a telephony-computer interface (TCI). The TCI is also connected to telephone lines. The TCI forms an interface between telephone line communications and data packets for real time communications. In this way, only one wiring connection, the local area network, need be installed to interconnect both telephones and personal computers, for both local and off-site communications.