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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1997
Ronald John Bowater, Romsey, GB;
Simon Robert Davies, Southampton, GB;
Lawrence Leon Porter, Lyndhurst, GB;
Mark George Stewart Reid Thomas, Boulder, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosure concerns a method of processing Internet telephony messages at gateway computer such as an IBM RISC/6000 system, comprising the steps of: receiving an Internet telephony message in a first compression scheme from a computer running an Internet telephone software application which uses the first compression scheme; converting the Internet telephony message into a compression scheme optionally via an intermediate format; sending the Internet message telephony to another computer running another Internet telephone software application using the second format.