公开(公告)号：GB2334602A

公开(公告)日：1999-08-25

申请号：GB9803796

申请日：1998-02-24

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： HEWITT DALE ROBINSON ,  TAUNTON PHILIP R L

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F11/00 ,  H04M1/65 ,  H04M3/24 ,  H04M3/50

Abstract: A system for developing and testing a telephony application on an interactive voice system without using associated telephony hardware. The telephony application normally sends and receives hardware signals to and from the system telephony hardware for communication with a telephone. In this invention a telephony emulator 26C intercepts the hardware signals from the voice application 20 and sends hack simulated hardware signals to the voice application. A graphical user interface 30 provides the user output in response to the telephony emulator means and accepts and passes on user input to the emulator.