Patent ID: 6898188
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for simulating the functionality of a gatekeeper entity in a Local Area Network (LAN) telephony system, comprising: a LAN telephony platform adapted to provide lower layer communications including an interface to said LAN telephony network, an IP communications stack and an H.323 protocol stack; an event processor adapted to process event messages received from and transmitted to said LAN telephony network; an IP phone table comprising an event table portion and an action table portion, said event table adapted to generate a response ID in response to one or more fields in the received event messages; a response script table comprising a plurality of responses to events, said response script table operative to generate a response in accordance with said response ID and to forward said response to said event processor for transmission to said LAN telephony network; an action scanner adapted to loop through the contents of said action table such that for each valid action within said action table, an action ID is generated; an action script table comprising a plurality of actions to be performed, said action script table operative to generate an action in accordance with said action ID and to forward said action to said event processor for subsequent processing; and a user interface for permitting a user to preprogram the contents of said event table, said action table, said response script table and said action script table and to configure said action scanner.