Patent ID: 6546008
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
In a communications system with defined performance features available at internal subscriber terminals of the communications system, wherein the internal terminals of the communications system communicate within a framework of a defined signaling protocol, a method of rendering the performance features available at an external terminal via a communications network, the method which comprises:providing a teleworking subscriber line module (SLMPX) having a switching device (SLMPX-KN) in the communications system; establishing a data link on a user data channel (ISDN-B channel) of the communications system between the external terminal and the teleworking subscriber line module by signing on to the communications system with the external terminal; and transferring to the external terminal, via the data link, signaling information usually available within the framework of the defined signaling protocol between the internal terminals and the communications system.