Patent ID: 7508816
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. Customer premises equipment (CPE) for interfacing between a circuit-switched telephone network and a packet-switched network at a customer premise of a customer, said CPE comprising: a modem communicatively coupled to said packet-switched network; and a telephony relay, said telephony relay including a first interface, a second interface, and a controller, said first interface being communicatively coupled to said packet-switched network via said modem for exchanging media in a first media format with said packet-switched network, said second interface being communicatively coupled to an analog telephone line of said circuit-switched telephone network at said customer premise for exchanging media in a second media format with said circuit-switched telephone network, wherein said telephony relay converts between said first and second media formats, and wherein said controller is adapted to perform call signaling with said circuit-switched telephone network and said packet-switched network so that said customer conducts a call over said analog telephone line from a connection to said packet-switched network away from said customer premise.