Patent ID: 8514719

Claim:
A guidance confirmation apparatus for confirming a guidance provided by an IP Multimedia Subsystem network including a Call Session Control Function server which performs call/connection processing of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) terminal, a Home Subscriber server which permits use of a registered Session Initiation Protocol terminal in the IP Multimedia Subsystem network, and a Multimedia Resource Function system which includes sound sources for generating plural kinds of guidance, comprising: a hardware unit providing a pseudo terminal which, upon receiving from the Session Initiation Protocol terminal a test connection command that instructs a guidance connection test, i) generates a virtual terminal usable in the IP Multimedia Subsystem network and registered in the Home Subscriber server together with a guidance number, and ii) processes the guidance connection test by connecting the Session Initiation Protocol terminal to a sound source corresponding to the guidance number based on the test connection command, wherein said guidance confirmation apparatus confirms the guidance provided by the IP Multimedia Subsystem network including the Call Session Control Function server which performs call/connection processing of the Session Initiation Protocol terminal, the Home Subscriber server which permits use of the registered Session Initiation Protocol terminal in the IP Multimedia Subsystem network, and the Multimedia Resource Function system which includes sound sources for generating plural kinds of guidance, and a number of said virtual terminal and a number of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) terminal are registered in the Home Subscriber server in association with the guidance number.