Patent ID: 8712028

Claim:
A telephone relaying apparatus, comprising: a published number storage unit that stores, for each of a plurality of telephone terminals, a real number and a published number in correlation with each other, wherein the real number represents a telephone number used for directly connecting to the telephone terminal and the published number represents a number published for a third party as a telephone number of the telephone terminal; a first reception unit that receives a first call from a first telephone terminal of the plurality of telephone terminals in which a calling number is the real number of the first telephone terminal and a called number is a telephone number of a second telephone terminal of the plurality of telephone terminals; a number transforming unit that determines, in response to the first call, the published number corresponding to the real number of the first telephone terminal from the published number storage unit; and a relaying unit that performs a second call to the second telephone terminal in which a calling number is the determined published number of the first telephone terminal, and performs a relaying process between the first telephone terminal and the second telephone terminal.