Patent ID: 6542472
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A communication apparatus, comprising:a terminal interface that connects to a communication terminal; a telephone network interface that connects to a public switched telephone network; a LAN interface that connects to an Internet; a communication controller that analyzes a transmission request from the communication terminal via the terminal interface to determine whether the transmission request is data transmission via the telephone network interface or data transmission via the LAN interface, the communication controller determining whether the transmission request is an Internet facsimile request or an Internet phone request, when the transmission request is determined to be data transmission via LAN interface; an Internet communication controller that performs voice transmission over the Internet via the LAN interface, when the communication controller determines that the transmission request is the Internet phone request; and an Internet facsimile controller that performs image transmission over the Internet via the LAN interface, when the communication controller determines that the transmission request is the Internet facsimile request, wherein, when the communication controller determines that the transmission request is data transmission via the telephone network, data transmission is performed over the public switched telephone network via the telephone network interface.