Patent ID: 6674745
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A self-registering telephony gateway for use in a packet switched network, said self-registering telephony gateway comprising, in combination:a processor; a storage medium; a network interface circuit coupling said telephony gateway with a network, said network interface circuit receiving incoming signals from said network and transmitting outgoing signals to said network; a telephone interface for communicating with subscriber telephone devices having subscriber telephone numbers, whereby the telephony gateway interfaces communications between the one or more subscriber telephone devices and the network; and a set of machine language instructions stored in said storage medium and executable by said processor to cause said telephony gateway to automatically communicate, to an address mapping system in said network, mapping information that enables the address mapping system to correlate (i) an address of the telephony gateway in the network with (ii) one or more subscriber telephone numbers served by the telephony gateway, the mapping information including (i) address indicia, indicative of the address of the telephony gateway and (ii) telephone number indicia, indicative of one or more subscriber telephone numbers served by the telephony gateway.