Patent ID: 6760427
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A computer telephony (CT) network for a private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system network including in combination:a plurality of private branch exchange (PBX) systems using a common software application and linked together through a network, each of the PBX systems having a unique address; a gateway processing system located on the network with one of the plurality of PBX systems, the gateway processing system having a plurality of application sockets with each application socket corresponding a CT application; a memory in the gateway processing system for storing a translation table identifying extension numbers on each of the PBX systems and combining these extension numbers with the unique addresses for each PBX system to provide mapping information for sending a command from any of the application sockets to a node socket for the PBX system, the node socket representing a physical location for an affected party extension number.