PEER-TO-PEER, INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEPHONE SYSTEM WITH AUTO-ATTENDANT

摘要

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide a Peer-to-Peer (P2P, Internet Protocol (IP) telephone system. The telephone system includes a plurality of terminals coupled together via an IP network. The terminals cooperate with one another to provide telephony features without a dedicated central controller such as a PBX and/or a KSU controller. The terminals may store system-wide configuration data and files referenced by the system-wide configuration data. The terminals may further determine whether the system-wide configuration data references a file that is not stored in the terminal, and requesting the file from another terminal of the telephone system in response to determining the terminal does not have a copy of the file.

主权项

1. A telephone terminal of a peer-to-peer telephone system comprising a plurality of telephone terminals, the telephone terminal comprising:
circuitry configured to couple the telephone terminal to an Internet Protocol (IP) network of the peer-to-peer telephone system, store for the telephone terminal system-wide configuration data comprising data used to configure each telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system for one or more telephony features of the peer-to-peer telephone system, and store files for the telephone terminal; and a server configured to determine whether the system-wide configuration data references a file not stored by the circuitry, wherein the file comprises further configuration data used to configure each telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system for one or more telephony features of the peer-to-peer telephone system, and request the file from another telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system in response to determining that the circuitry does not store the file wherein the circuitry is further configured to store a lock count for each stored file, wherein each lock count tracks active references to its respective stored file, and wherein the server is further configured to increment the lock count of a file in response to determining that the system-wide configuration data newly references the file; and wherein the server is further configured to decrement the lock count of a file in response to determining that the system-wide configuration data no longer references the file.