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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2009
Pascal R. Crausaz, San Jose, CA (US);
Edwin J. Basart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dave Dix, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas E. Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nam DO, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Pascal R. Crausaz, San Jose, CA (US);
Edwin J. Basart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dave Dix, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas E. Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nam Do, Pleasanton, CA (US);
ShoreTel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system (a method) for exchanging information such as a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) over a communication channel in general and over a telephone communications channel in particular in a unified communications system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a phone URL exchange unit configured to receive a phone URL exchange request from a first endpoint, to determine the URL to be sent and URL encoding method based on the request, to encode the URL into audio data or as a part of the communications control signals using the URL encoding method and to send the encoded data to a second endpoint over the telephone communications channel. The phone URL exchange unit is further configured to receive audio data or the communications control signals embedded with a URL and to decode the received data to reveal the URL.