Patent ID: 6625168
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A system for controlling and monitoring first telecommunication terminal devices connected to private branch exchanges or second telecommunication terminal devices coupled to long-distance networks, comprising:at least one application-related conversion unit for protocol conversion of data supplied by application programs to a uniform system-internal data format; at least one control information router having a first reception unit for receiving commands from an application-related conversion unit as well as the forwarding thereof via a protocol conversion unit to terminal devices logically allocated to one another and that form a domain; a second reception unit for receiving messages from a domain as well as the forwarding thereof via a protocol conversion unit to an application-related conversion unit; the protocol conversion units being provided for conversion of the uniform system-internal data format to domain-specific communication protocols; first ones of said protocol conversion units being coupled to private branch exchanges; second ones of said protocol conversion units being coupled to long-distance networks; and the second protocol conversion units comprising a protocol setup unit for supplementing structural items of additional information in the system-internal data format, a coupling unit to a central monitoring and connection signaling unit of a domain inside a long-distance network, and a management unit for acquisition of registered terminal devices of the long-distance networks.