Patent ID: 7817645

Claim:
A method of handling telephone and multimedia communications and related voice input/output of telephone units and computer networking equipment on a local area network (LAN) with a Server computer and one or more associated Client computers in a Client/Server structure that is capable of supporting integrated data transmissions to a network of users and digitalized telephone and multimedia communications, comprising: providing said Server with an interface for connecting a public telecommunications network and with specific software dedicated to controlling, monitoring and handling telephone and multimedia communications and related telephone units upon activation of said specific software, and activating, from a Client computer, said specific software at said Server, to generate a visualization of status and parameters relating to telephone and multimedia communications, comprising a bar type graph ( 10 ) configured to access one or more subsequent visualizations ( 22 , 23 ) at the Client computer, upon user interaction with the Client computer to which said telephone unit is associated by using only Internet browser procedures for exchanging data and commands on the Internet that have been installed on said Client computer in such a way that telephone units and Client computers with different operating systems and different hardware/software structures can interact on said LAN with said specific software at said Server and in response, said Server can control, monitor and handle telephone and multimedia communications at each of said telephone units and Client computers with different operating systems and different hardware/software structures, and generate at respective Client computers, a visualization of status and parameters relating to such telephone and multimedia communications, wherein said specific software dedicated to controlling, monitoring and handling telephone and multimedia communications and related telephone units and generate the visualization of status and parameters relating to telephone and multimedia communications is installed solely in said Server of the LAN, and not on any said Client computer.