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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Handa, JP;
Susumu Chida, Ichinomiya, JP;
Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Handa, JP;
Susumu Chida, Ichinomiya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
To facilitate calls made by Internet telephony through a computer, an IP phone system is provided with an audio I/Ffor inputting and outputting audio signals for communications to and from a PCover the Internet, in accordance with Internet telephony execution commands; a user I/Ffor inputting Internet telephony call start instructions; and a path switching portionfor switching the output destination of audio signals that are input though a handsetand the input source of audio signals to be output as sounds from the handset, between an NCUand the audio I/F, if a call start instruction for Internet telephony is input. If a call start instruction for Internet telephony is input from the user I/F, a control portionoutputs a control command for executing Internet telephony with respect to the PC, as an audio signal from the audio I/F