Patent ID: 8675643
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An IP telephone terminal comprising: an identification data storing section that stores a display name consisting of a first character string identifying the IP telephone terminal; a monitoring section configured to monitor an available function of an external device connected to the IP telephone terminal through a non-Internet connection, the available function being indicated as terminal data consisting of a second character string; a combining section configured to add the terminal data indicating the available function and the display name stored in the identification data storing section, with a delimiter provided between the terminal data and the display name, to generate a discrete display name, when the monitoring section detects the available function; an updating section configured to store the discrete display name generated by the combining section as a new discrete display name in the identification data storing section; a transmitting section configured to transmit the discrete display name stored in the identification data storing section over the Internet to a second IP telephone terminal in a manner that the discrete display name can be displayed with a third terminal display name identifying a third IP telephone terminal transmitted from the third IP telephone terminal at the second IP telephone terminal for a selection to be made of either one of the IP telephone terminal and the third IP telephone terminal; a communicating section configured to establish IP telephone communications with the second IP telephone terminal via the Internet when the second IP telephone terminal transmits a command to the IP telephone terminal to establish the IP telephone communications after the transmitting section transmits the discrete display name over the Internet to the second IP telephone terminal; an IP telephone function controlling section configured to control an IP telephone function used to implement a telephone call through the IP telephone communications with the second IP telephone terminal, after the communicating section establishes the IP telephone communications with the second IP telephone terminal; and a function execution controlling section configured to receive target data to be processed by the available function from the second IP telephone terminal through the IP telephone communications with the second IP telephone terminal after the communicating section establishes the IP telephone communications with the second IP telephone terminal, and then the function executing controlling section being configured to process the target data by using the available function.