| US 7,551,600 B2 | ||
| Telephone terminal, call system, internet terminal and terminal control program | ||
| Tokunori Kato, Ichinomiya (Japan); Shozo Kabeya, Gamagori (Japan); Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Handa (Japan); Katsunori Enomoto, Toyokawa (Japan); Tetsuya Ouchi, Nagoya (Japan); Susumu Chida, Ichinomiya (Japan); and Hideaki Takahashi, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 05, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/633,620. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2002-229956 (JP), filed on Aug. 07, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0028198 A1, Feb. 12, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/66 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—352 [379/90.01; 379/93.01; 379/93.09; 379/210.01; 379/230] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A single telephone terminal for enabling a voice call by inputting/outputting audio based on audio signals transmitted
through a telephone line network from a transmitter/receiver, the single telephone terminal comprising:
a Network Control Unit (NCU) capable of inputting/outputting audio signals through the telephone line network;
an audio input/output path provided beside the NCU and capable of inputting/outputting audio signals from/to an outside source
through an Internet network;
a switch device for switching an output destination of audio signals based on audio input from the transmitter/receiver and
an input source of audio signals to be outputted as audio from the transmitter/receiver from the NCU to the audio input/output
path according to a user's operation; and
a telephone call notification device for notifying through the single telephone terminal of reception of an incoming call
from the telephone line network when the incoming call from the telephone line network is received in the state in which the
output destination and the input source of audio signals have been switched to the audio input/output path by the switch device,
wherein the switch device switches the output destination of audio signals based on audio input from the transmitter/receiver
and the input source of audio signals to be outputted as audio from the transmitter/receiver from the NCU to the audio input/output
path in response to detecting that a call via the NCU is ended after notification by the telephone call notification device.
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