US 7,519,047 B1
Method and apparatus for cloning terminals in a communications network
Robert A. Macaulay, Gloucester (Canada); Milos Vodsedalek, Ottawa (Canada); and Brian B. Egan, Stittsville (Canada)
Assigned to Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec (Canada)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/723,591.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/66 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—352  [370/401] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article comprising at least one storage medium containing instructions that when executed cause a system to:
receive a request to establish a first terminal as a clone of a second terminal;
in response to the request, associate a first logical port between a telephony proxy server and a switch module with both the first and second terminals;
receive, at the switch module, a call request specifying the second terminal as a target;
forward, by the switch module, the call request through the first logical port to the telephony proxy server, and route, by the telephony proxy server, the call request to the first terminal;
wherein the instructions when executed cause the system to further disable the second terminal.