CA2274700A1 - Telephone device - Google Patents

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CA2274700A1
CA2274700A1 CA002274700A CA2274700A CA2274700A1 CA 2274700 A1 CA2274700 A1 CA 2274700A1 CA 002274700 A CA002274700 A CA 002274700A CA 2274700 A CA2274700 A CA 2274700A CA 2274700 A1 CA2274700 A1 CA 2274700A1
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Alfred Straeuli
Marco Mathis
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M11/00Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems
    • H04M11/04Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/66Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/26Devices for calling a subscriber
    • H04M1/27Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
    • H04M1/272Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing only one subscriber number at a time, e.g. by keyboard or dial
    • H04M1/2725Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously with provision for storing only one subscriber number at a time, e.g. by keyboard or dial using electronic memories
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04MTELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/66Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling
    • H04M1/677Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers

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Abstract

The invention relates to a telephone device, wherein the usual line selector unit is replaced by a single line selecting unit (9). When the inventive line selecting unit (9) is manually activated (11), a line selection number which is programmed inside said device is activated or a telephone-identifying code is transmitted to an exchange, which establishes communication with a predetermined receiver station.

Description

WO 99/26265 ~ PCT/CH99/00466 TELEPHONE D8'tIICE
The present invention relates to a telephone device o! the type specified in the preamble o! Claim 1.
known telephone devices of this type have a line selector unit which, as the rssult'o! a keypad operation, permits the selecting of all available lines.
In the case of certain organizational structures, in which, !or example, peripheral telephone device units are to communicate exclusively with an exchange, the conventional telephone units or the above-mentioned type are unsuitable, on the one hand, because they permit a free line selection and thus a telephoning which fa not desirable in the addressed organizational structure.
Controlling this situation results in significant expenditures.
On the other hand, specifically because of the free lies selection, these conventional telephone devices require excessive expenditures !or such purposes) and in some cases) the line selection itsel! is too complicated.
A typical example o! an organizational structure o! the above-mentioned type, in the case of which an operating simplicity on peripheral devices fs of decisive significance, is that fn which a mother can communicate with her children at any time, whether at school or on a playground. Suoh an organizational structure may exist in field offices with respect to an exchange, etc.
It is an object of the present invention to suggest a telephone device of the above-mentioned type which, while it can be produced at reasonable~cost, takes into account the abovs-mentioned requirements. In the case o= a telephone device of the above-mentioned type, this is achieved according to the charactsriaing part o! Claim 1.
In the following, the invention will be explained by means of embodiments illustrated in the figures.
Figure 1 is a view of a signal flow / action block diagram of a telephone device according to the invention;
Figure 2 is a view of a signal floe / action block diagram of a telephone device acceding to the invention in a preferred embodiment;
Figure 3 is a view of an example of the implementation of the telephone device according to the invention as a clip for children;
Figure 4 is a sehematlc view of a simple communication structure implemented by means of the telephone davioo acoording to Figure 1;
Figure 5 is a schematic view of a simple communication structure implemented by means o! the telephone device o! Figure Z according to the invention:
The telephone device according to the invention is a so-called radio telephone which operates on the respective local radio telephone network, such as the Natel Network, the 6MS
Network, the USA Network or the Japansso network. As customary .
in the case of such telephone devices, it has a radio unit 1 !or this purpose, which has transmitting and receiving units for the radio signal S. Furthermore, an electrfc/acoustic transducer is provided, preferably in the form op a microphone 3, as yell as an electric/acougtie transducer, preferably in the form og a loudspsalcer 5. As schematically illustrated in Figure 1, corrBapondingly, the microphone 3 fs connected with an input o=
the radio unit i and the loudspeaker 5 fs conni~et~d with an output o! the radio unit 1. Furthermore, a memory unit 7 is operatively connected with the radio unit 1, which ~uemory unit 7 contains the device fdentilication number and thus identifies the device for arriving calls.
Furthermore, telephone devices of this type have a line selecting identification unit, in the case of which, normally in a keypad-controlled manner, the desired line can be selected for outgoing calls. According to the invention, in the case of the device according to the invention, the line seleotit~g identification unit consists of a read-only memory (ROM) 9, by means of which preferably only a single line selecting number i~
identified.
In thin case, the memory unit 7 may directly contain the selection number assigned by tho network operator to the device, as the device identification dumber.
Also the read-only memory 9 may directly contain the line soiecting number of the wanted receiving station.
How~ver, in a preferred embodiment according to Figure Z, the memory unit 7 contains a code - p=N code - fixedly assigned to the device.
The read-only memory 9 also preferably contains a fixedly assigned code, preferably the same PIN code. A: a result, as illustrated in Figure a, only one memory unit 7/9 may therefore be provided for the addressed PIN code.
In the case of the first embodiment according to Figure i) the line selecting memory 9 can preferably be removed in a .. ___ _~ __.

modular manner, for example, by a servicing facility, and anothet xaemory module can be inserted for changing the line selecting number in a defined receiving station. As the result of a keypad confirmation, preferably and as illustrated schematically in Figure 1) of only a single key 11 at the device, the stored number AAA . " of th~ receiving station is transmitted by the memory unit 9 to the radio unit 1 for the lineasslsction. The memory unit 7 is loaded with the call number identifying the d~vice.
In contrast, in a preferred embodiment according to Figure 2, the communication is structured as follows:
Z'he exchange records, assigned to the device cods (PIN
code), the line selecting number of the receiver assigned to the telephone device according to the invention.
Upon a key pressure on the device according to the invention, the latter sends a signal to the exshangs which corresponds to the PIN code. From it, the exchange identifies the calling telephone device and establishes by way of a normal line selection the connection between the identified device and the intended one receiver connection which is identified together with this device.
Inversely, in the case of incoming calls for the telephone device according to the invention, the exchange establishes, particularly starting from the above-mentioned selected receiver station) the connection to the telephone device by means of a call signal corresponding to the PIN code.
Zn the case of the latter, preferred impl,Ementation form ~ceording to Figure 2, the device-identifying coda can bs fixedly assigned to the device; the de:iced receiving station is ordered for the spscilic device code at the exchange.
Such an extremely simple telephone device, which permits only the selecting of a single line, is extremely suitable for an operation by children or for an operation by other circles of people, in which an error-proof fast operation, as, for example, for alarm purposes, is required. Such groups of people may perform invaluable services in watch organizations, during sports activities, for example, during mounting climbing, sailing and diving.
a For use, for example, by children, in Figure 3, the device according to the invention i: integrated in a plug-type clip and the single key 11a to be operated is provided at a clearly defined, easily remembered point. Such a device is also .
excellently suitable for use as a carrier of advertising.
Figure 4 schematically illustratem the communication structure, in the case o! which two peripheral units P1~2,~=or example, o! the two children, can in each case be called by the wanted distant station G, for example, at the mother's, by means of the respective device identification number stored at the device according to the i~'tvention, corresponding to 9 of Figure 1. Subsequently, the distant station G, such as the mother, can speak with the respective child. I! a situation occurs in which, for example, the child wants to communicate with the mother, it must only operate the line selecting key 11 or lie, whereupon, according to Figure 1, the fixedly programmed number of the distant station, again called AAA fn Figure 4, is dialed and the communication connection with the distant station Z is then established. As illustrated, at the distant station G, a normal telephone device is used which has a hunting capability, while devices according to the invention ate used on the periphery which can dial only the number o! the distant station G, and this takes place by a simple activating operation.
w According to Figure 5, the communication on the pretsrred device according to Figure 2 with an exchange Z is established only by way of a signal corresponding to the PIN code, which exchange 2, corresponding to the PIN code, establishes the connection with the predeterioined distant station G. Inversely, when the PIN code of a calling distant station G is identilisd, the exchange Z establishes the communioation with the telephone device according to the invention identified by means o! the PIN

code. As illustrated by broken lines, the predetes~ined distant Stations G are assigned to the individual P=N codes at the exchange Z. Naturally several distant stations G may be authorized to make calls 1o a telsphon~ device according to the invention, While preferably only one distant station is identified as the receiver station by a telephone device according to the invention or a P=N code.
8y means of the telephone device according to the inv.ntion~
a communication device !or a mobile use is therefore suggested which can be used independently o! its location in tht ma»ner o!
a radio telephone but comprises no integrated selection unit.
The suggested communication device is extremely small and can be used in different designs in connection with carriers of advertising or without them and in different shapes !or a professional as yell as for a private application, for example, as a communication co~nectfon between a mother and a child. The connections from the device according to the invention are established without a knowledge o! numbers or iQtters, only by pressing a button. The telephone device according to tha invention also prevents that undesirable telephone connections can be established. I! the device is lost or cannot be found, it will be of no value to a third person and cannot be used by this third purpose for his own purposes.

a As described above, the device according to the invention without a selection unit establishes, by mean: of the pushing of a button, an analog or digital connection by way o! an existing radio network or a radio network to be established. This oornection may be established directly or by way o! an exchange.
In particular, the inclusion of radio networks, which already exist worldwide and have infrastruaturee, permits a low-cost operating structure.
As mentioned above, such an extremely simple telephone device, which in a preferred embodiment permits only the dialing of a single line, is extremely well suitable for being operated by children, !or being operated by handicapped, old or sick persons or for being operated by other groups of persons !or whom this should be possible fa an error-proof and rapid manner, as w for triggering an alarm.
w

Claims (7)

CLAIMS:
1. Radio telephone device comprising - a transmitter/receiver unit (1) tuned to a local radio telephone network, and operatively connected therewith, - an electro/acoustic transducer (5), - an acoustic/electric transducer (3), - a line selecting memory (9) having a preprogrammed memory contents whose read-out for the initialization of the line selection is activated by a manually operable key arrangement (11), characterized in that a device identification memory (7) is operatively connected with the transmitter/receiver unit (1), the line selecting memory (9) is constructed as a read-only memory and can be removed from the device in a modular manner.
2. Device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the device identification memory (7) and the line selecting memory (9) are formed by the same memory element.
3. Device according to one of Claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the device identification memory (7) is combined with the line selecting memory (9).
4. Device according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the line selecting memory (9) is activated by the operation of a key (1).
5. Device according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the line selecting memory (9) is designed for storing a line selecting number (AAA...) or for storing a code identifying the fins selecting number.
6. Device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that it is constructed as a clip.
7. Use of the telephone device according to one of Claims 1 to 6 as a carrier for advertising.
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