Patent ID: 8837461

Claim:
A call connection device coupled to a plurality of telephone terminals via a network, comprising: a call connection part carrying out call connection processing between said plurality of telephone terminals; a terminal registration part registering IP addresses of said plurality of telephone terminals; a terminal location detection part detecting locations of said telephone terminals, a relay device table storing information of a plurality of relay devices coupled to said telephone terminals, and a port location table storing information of a plurality of ports which are mounted onto one of said plurality of relay devices for coupling to said telephone terminals; wherein said call connection part receives a register command from one of said plurality of telephones, which includes a first IP address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals; wherein said port location table stores an identifier identifying a corresponding relay device, an identifier identifying a corresponding port, and positional information corresponding to said corresponding port; wherein said terminal location detection part: requests to said plurality of relay devices whose identifiers are stored in said relay device table as said identifier, a MAC address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals based on said first IP address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals; requests, to a relay device which sends said MAC address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals to said terminal location destination part, an identifier of a port which said one of said plurality of telephone terminals is coupled to based on said MAC address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals in receiving said MAC address of said one of said plurality of telephone terminals from said relay device connected with said one of said plurality of telephone terminals, and refers to said port location table based on said identifier of said port to acquire said positional information corresponding to said port which said one of said plurality of telephone terminals is coupled to in receiving said identifier of said port.