Patent ID: 6377569
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
An internet phone server device used in a system provided by an Internet service provider connecting an ordinary public telephone line to the Internet, said Internet phone server device comprising:means for acquiring a terminating telephone number of a terminating telephone from a calling side; ISPA acquiring means for searching a database on the basis of the acquired telephone number to acquire a nearby ISPA that is nearby the terminating telephone and that communications with the terminating telephone via an ordinary public line, the nearby ISPA calling the terminating telephone on the basis of resultant information of the search; terminal judging means for determining whether said terminating telephone is an Internet phone or an ordinary telephone; and converting means at the terminating side server for converting packet-form speech data into ordinary speech, wherein when said terminal judging means determines that said terminating telephone is an ordinary telephone, said terminating side server converts said packet-form speech data into said ordinary speech by said converting means to transmit the converted ordinary speech to said terminating telephone; and when said terminal judging means determines that said terminating telephone is an Internet phone, the terminating telephone notifies its own IP address to a calling side server, and the calling side server notifies its own IP address to the terminating telephone.