Patent ID: 6792266
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A network telephone system, comprising:service providing unit for providing a predetermined service via a network to a first subscriber who has made a dial-up connection; subscriber information registration unit for registering subscriber information necessary to monitor a call to said first subscriber in response to a request of call transfer from said first subscriber who has made the dial-up connection; incoming call detection unit for detecting that there is an incoming call from a second subscriber to said first subscriber who is making the dial-up connection to said service providing unit, by monitoring the call to said first subscriber based on said subscriber information registered in said subscriber information registration unit; incoming call notification unit for notifying said first subscriber that an incoming call has been detected by said incoming call detection unit; and call control unit for controlling a call setup for voice between said first subscriber and said second subscriber, upon an instruction from said first subscriber who has received a notification by said incoming call notification unit, wherein said network includes a first network accommodating the lines for said first and second subscribers and having a service quality which does not vary depending on the traffic volume or the number of hops in the path of the connection with respect to the voice, a second network having a service quality which varies depending on the traffic volume or the number of hops in the path of the connection with respect to the voice, a plurality of protocol conversion unit, installed at a plurality of sites, for converting the protocol between said first and second networks, and said call control unit makes the call setup for voice via said first and second networks, wherein said call control unit designates said protocol conversion unit available which is located near the residential place of the second subscriber, and makes a call setup between said first subscriber and said second subscriber via said designated protocol conversion unit.