Patent ID: 8705717

Claim:
A telephone relaying apparatus that is used in a communication network provided with switching equipment, comprising: a telephone number storage unit that, for each of a plurality of telephone terminals that is connected to the communication network, stores a real number that is a telephone number used in the case of directly connecting to the telephone terminal and a published number that is a number published for a third party as a telephone number of the telephone terminal in correlation with each other; a connection request receiving unit that receives a request for connection to a second telephone terminal from a first telephone terminal from a computer terminal which a user of the first telephone terminal operates through a data communication, the connection request including a telephone number of the first telephone terminal connected to the communication network and a telephone number of the second terminal; a first connection processing unit that respectively reads out the published number of the second telephone terminal and the real number of the first telephone terminal from the telephone number storage unit based on the telephone number of the second telephone terminal and the telephone number of the first telephone terminal which are included in the connection request, and makes a first call to the first telephone terminal, in which the published number of the second telephone terminal is set as a calling number and in which the real number of the first telephone terminal is set as a called number; and a second connection processing unit that respectively reads out the published number of the first telephone number and the real number of the second telephone terminal from the telephone number storage unit based on the telephone number of the first telephone terminal and the telephone number of the second telephone number which are included in the connection request, and makes a second call to the second telephone terminal, in which the published number of the first telephone terminal is set as a calling number and in which the real number of the second telephone terminal is set as a called number.