Patent ID: 8401162

Claim:
A telephone relay system in which a telephone relay apparatus receives a call transmitted from a first telephone terminal to transfer the call to a second telephone terminal, wherein the telephone relay apparatus comprises: a user information storage which stores a proxy telephone number to be employed when a call is transmitted from the first telephone terminal to the telephone relay apparatus, and a user identifier and a user telephone number of a transfer destination which are disposed in association with the proxy telephone number; a notification transmitter number information which stores information of a correspondence between a telephone number of the first telephone terminal which are transmitted to the telephone relay apparatus when the call is transmitted from the first telephone terminal to the telephone relay apparatus and a telephone number identifier, the information disposed in association with the user identifier; a telephone number information storage which stores information of a correspondence between the telephone number identifier and a notification telephone number; and a call controller which identifies the notification telephone number based on the proxy telephone number employed when the call is transmitted to the telephone relay apparatus, and transfers the call to the user telephone number by use of the notification telephone number.