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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1997
Uwe Wrede, San Jose, CA (US);
Mieu Hong Dang, San Jose, CA (US);
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications method and apparatus for sending non-protocol messages from a source to a remote phone terminal having a display includes converting the messages at the source into a format that is compatible with transmission via a signaling channel of a telecommunications line having at least one digital user data channel in addition to the signaling channel. For example, the telecommunications line may be an ISDN link. The formatted messages are visually displayed at the remote phone terminal. As examples, the messages may be menu options of an interactive voice response unit, facsimile documents of a facsimile server, or voicemail messages of a voicemail server.