METHOD, MODEM AND SERVER FOR BRIDGING TELEPHONE CALLS INTO INTERNET CALLS

• Main Authors: WANG, XIN, YIN, AIHAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.02.2014
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION

The present invention relates to a method for bridging traffic in analogue channel into digital channel using Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line, said method comprises: step of PSTN network connecting, in which caller and callee ADSLs establish PSTN network connection using PSTN signaling in the analogue channel; step of discovering Internet call, in which the caller ADSL sends Internet call setup message to Internet call server, the caller ADSL and the callee ADSL make Internet call discovery procedure on the Internet and determine successful Internet call discovery; step of setting up Internet connection, in which the caller and callee ADSLs set up Internet connection in the digital channel by means of the successful Internet call discovery; step of bridging the PSTN network connection to the Internet, in which the caller and the callee ADSLs bridge the PSTN network connection to the Internet via the Internet connection which has been set up, and release the analogue channel. The invention further relates a modem and a Internet call server used in the method.