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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1997
Mojtaba Mirashrafi, Portland, OR (US);
Ken Pawlak, Beaverton, OR (US);
John D. Elliott, Portland, OR (US);
Michael F. Buondonno, Beaverton, OR (US);
Kenneth L. Keeler, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Keith A Pirkl, Vancouver, WA (US);
Al J. Simon, Hillsboro, OR (US);
George L. Taylor, Tigard, OR (US);
Mark D. Zuber, Beaverton, OR (US);
Jeffrey B. Sponaugle, Hillsboro, OR (US);
ITXC, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is comprised of a storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions for implementing a set of communication services for establishing and supporting a direct quality voice call to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) extension, and an execution unit, coupled to the storage medium, for executing the plurality of programming instructions. In particular, the set of communication services include services for establishing and facilitating the voice call to the PSTN extension on behalf of the client computer, and services for causing a direct connection to be established between the client computer and the apparatus.