Patent ID: 6807271
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
An exchange apparatus for providing a service relating to telephone exchange in accordance with a control signal received from a communication line, the exchange apparatus comprising:control signal receiving means for receiving the control signal from the communication line; process location determination means for determining whether a process associated with the control signal received by the control signal receiving means is to be executed within the exchange apparatus or in a processing apparatus external to the exchange apparatus; control signal notice means for notifying the processing apparatus external to the exchange apparatus of a content of the received control signal, when the process location determination means has determined that the process is to be executed in the external processing apparatus; and service providing means for providing a service, on the basis of a result of the process executed by the external processing apparatus in accordance with the content of the control signal, of which the external processing apparatus was notified by the control signal notice means.