| 摘要 |
A system including a plurality of remotely configurable telephone network communication terminals (102) is adapted to communicate with a programming terminal (134) over a data network (222) by adding a remote interface means (RIM) (202) for each terminal to convert communications between the terminal to or from a format adapted for transmission over the data network, the programming terminal having a modem emulator (202) having communication and programming capabilities to interface the programming terminal with the network; by converting the programming terminal data to a network compatible format, obtaining an address for the RIM, connecting the programming terminal and the RIM via the data network, connecting the RIM and the communication terminal, transmitting the converted programming terminal data to the RIM, reconstituting the converted data to a format suitable for the communication terminal, and transmitting the reconstituted data to the communication terminal. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of transmitting time dependent information in a first format, the time dependent information being associated with associated serial information in a second format across a data network having a network protocol, the method comprising:
using time stamps to capture the time-dependent information in the network protocol; converting the second format of the associated serial information to the network protocol; forming a message in the network protocol, the message including the time dependent information and the serial information in the network protocol; transmitting the message in the network protocol format across the network to a destination terminal; and at the destination terminal, extracting the time stamp information from the message, and using the time-stamp information to reconstitute the time-dependent information, and converting the format of the serial information from the network protocol to the second format. |
