METHOD FOR DIVERSING AN INCOMING TELEPHONE CALL TO AN ALREADY ONGOING INTERNET SESSION

摘要

A method and a device for providing a telephone service to a subscriber which over a computer and a modem has an ongoing Internet session with a an Internet access server over an IP link established over a connection in the telephony network. A telephony application allowing for voice transmission over the IP connection is running on the computer. A telephony server has access to the public network and to the Internet access server. Upon start up of the telephony application the telephony server requests forwarding of calls to the subscriber's own telephone number to go to the telephony server from which they are transported over the IP access server to the subscriber's computer. Speech is transported as compressed audio.