Patent ID: 8155292
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A telephone system comprising: a plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses which are connected with one another via transmission paths and execute exchange processing among a plurality of telephone terminals, generate call information events specifying a plurality of telephone terminals to which call connections are made; a server apparatus which is connected to the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses through the transmission paths; and a management unit which is connected to the server apparatus, receives call information events from the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses, and executes call-state management of the plurality of telephone terminals, wherein each of the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses comprises: a determining unit which determines presence or absence of disconnections of call connections among the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses, when call connection states are changed in a state in which call connections among the plurality of telephone terminals connected to the telephone exchange apparatuses differing from one another are established; and a transmitter which adds identification information to the call information event to be transmitted to the server apparatus, when the determining unit determines that the fact of the disconnection of the call connections, the identification information indicating the fact of disconnections of the call connections, and the server apparatus comprises: a controller which controls execution and stop of the call-state management by the management unit based on the identification information, when the identification information is added to the received call information event.