Patent ID: 9065889
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A telephone relay apparatus comprising: a codec storage unit storing phone numbers of a plurality of telephone terminals and codec information that indicates types of audio codecs provided in the telephone terminals so that the phone numbers and the codec information correspond to each other; a connection request reception unit receiving a connection request from a first telephone terminal to a second telephone terminal, the connection request including the phone numbers of the first telephone terminal and the second telephone terminal; a codec readout unit reading out the codec information from the codec storage unit, the codec information corresponding to the phone number of the second telephone terminal included in the connection request; and a connection processing unit transmitting the codec information read out by the codec readout unit to the first telephone terminal, connecting to the first telephone terminal and the second telephone terminal, and receiving data from the first terminal that the first telephone terminal encodes using an audio code type indicated in the codec information transmitted by the connection processing unit, and transmitting to the second terminal the encoded data received from the first terminal.