Patent ID: 7116771
Filing Date: 2006-10-03
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A telephony device for operating in accordance with one or more national standards comprising: one or more telephone ports to couple to a local exchange; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and being programmed to accept a plurality of downloadable values that can be downloaded to the telephony device over an Internet Protocol network and stored in the memory, wherein each of the plurality of values are defined as a management information base object or a management information base table that includes one or more management information base objects, said plurality of values including: a first set of management information base objects, one set for each of the one or more telephone ports, said first set of management information base objects controlling a first set of operations of the telephony device, said first set of operations including hook flash operations, pulse dialing operations, jitter buffer size, debounce characteristics, transmitter gain and receiver gain; a second set of management information base objects, a number of which are independent of a number of the one or more telephone ports, said second set of management information base objects controlling a second set of operations of the telephony device, said second set of operations including caller identification functionality; a first management information base table controlling pulse signaling operations for the telephony device; a second management information base table controlling ringing cadence operations for the telephony device; and a third management information base table controlling tone operations for the telephony device.