US 7,519,061 B2
Internet telephone and communicating method
Akira Miyajima, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/763,204.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-088584 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0190518 A1, Sep. 30, 2004
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—392  [370/352; 370/356] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An Internet telephone apparatus, comprising:
a key pad configured to input an extension number of a call destination, a plurality of telephone apparatuses being associated with the call destination;
a memory configured to store a first octet and a second octet of an IP address of a network to which the Internet telephone apparatus is connected; and
a controller configured to set a part of the extension number as a third octet of the IP address, to set another part of the extension number as a fourth octet of the IP address, to generate an IP address based on a combination of the first octet and the second octet of the IP address stored in the memory together with the set third octet and the set fourth octet of the IP address, and to access a network telephone apparatus of the call destination over the Internet based on the IP address.