PROVIDING ADVANCED CALL FEATURES TO AN ANALOG TELEPHONE USING A MEDIA GATEWAY

摘要

An intelligent media gateway (10) provides packet-switched telephony and advanced telephone call features to an analog telephone handset (12). The intelligent media gateway (10) is connected between the analog telephone handset (12) and a network (16), such as the Internet or other type of IP network. Telephone calls are transmitted and received by the intelligent media gateway (10) using a packet-switched telephony protcol, such as VoIP. The advanced telephone call features are handled by an intelligent call agent (36) located on the media gateway (10), which can be configured by the user.