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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2000
P. Michael Henderson, Tustin, CA (US);
Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A telephony system and method for providing telephony services to remote users. The telephony system comprises a user side and a provider side. The user side includes a telephony instrument and a personal computer for establishing communication with the provider side via a communication gateway, a communication device and a wide area network, such as the Internet. The provider side includes a virtual private network in communication with the wide area network and a communication network. The communication network is in communication with a telephony server interfacing with a telephone switched system. The telephone switched network provides telephone lines for allocation of the telephone lines by the virtual private network to the remote users.