Radio communication device,parent communication device, parent-child communication device and radio communication system

• US 20030008647A1
• Filed: 07/31/2002
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: S Aqua Semiconductor LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: YOZAN, Inc.
• Inventors: Kiyomatsu, Hisanori, Takatori, Sunao
• Granted Patent: US 6,763,231 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a slave communication device which received control delegation from a master communication device and performs communication with an originating telephone apparatus through a host station based on a call originated from that originating telephone apparatus, and has a master communication device 1 having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless telephone line provided by a host station 3 and one or more slave communication devices 2 receiving control delegation from the master communication device 1 to perform communication using the wireless telephone line for the master communication device 1. The slave communication device 2 comprises storage means for storing the master ID and a slave ID recognizable by the master communication device 1, wireless communication means for performing communication using the wireless telephone line for the master communication device 1 through the host station 3, pager signal reception means for receiving a pager signal of a radio paging system, and control means for controlling the wireless communication means based on a predetermined pager signal received by the pager signal reception means.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device receiving control delegation from a master communication device having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless telephone line provided by a host station to perform communication using the wireless telephone line for said master communication device, characterized by comprising:

storage means for storing said master ID and a slave ID recognizable by said master communication device;

wireless communication means for performing communication using the wireless telephone line for said master communication device through said host station;

pager signal reception means for receiving a pager signal of a radio paging system; and

control means for controlling said wireless communication means based on a predetermined pager signal received by said pager signal reception means.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, characterized in that said control means normally turns off the power of said wireless communication means, and when said pager signal reception means receives a pager signal, determines whether or not the pager signal includes an originating instruction that originating should be performed to an originating telephone number, and when it determines that it is not included, performs control to maintain the power of said wireless communication means off.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 2, characterized in that said control means performs control to turn on the power of said wireless communication means when it determines that the originating instruction that originating should be performed to the originating telephone number is included.

4. The wireless communication device according to claim 3, characterized in that said control means controls said wireless communication means to perform originating to an originating telephone apparatus of the originating telephone number using said master ID after the power of said wireless communication means is turned on.

5. The wireless communication device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, when said pager signal reception means receives said pager signal including the originating telephone number of the originating telephone apparatus, said control means performs control to notify a user of the fact that a telephone call should be made to the originating telephone apparatus of said originating telephone number.

6. The wireless communication device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized by further comprising transmission/reception means for receiving the slave ID created by said master communication device in said control delegation and performing transmission and reception of various signals to and from said master communication device, and characterized in that, when said transmission/reception means receives said slave ID, said control means controls said storage means to store said slave ID in said storage means.

7. The wireless communication device according to claim 6, characterized in that said storage means has a pager ID stored therein for the page signal received by said pager signal reception means, and

said control means controls said storage means and said transmission/reception means to read and transmit said pager ID to said master communication device in said control delegation.

8. A master communication device having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless telephone line provided by a host station, using n (n is an integer equal to or larger than one) wireless communication devices according to any one of claims 1 to 7 as slave communication devices, and providing each of the slave communication devices with a slave ID created on the basis of said master ID to perform control delegation to each of the slave communication devices, characterized by comprising:

wireless communication means for performing wireless communication through said host station by transmitting said master ID to said host station; and

control means for controlling said wireless communication means, and

characterized in that, when said wireless communication means receives, during communication with an originating telephone apparatus, a signal indicating an originating telephone number of the originating telephone apparatus and a signal specifying any of the slave communication devices to which control has been delegated originated from said originating telephone apparatus, said control means disconnects the communication with said telephone apparatus and controls said wireless communication means such that said pager signal reception means of said slave communication device receives a pager signal including said originating telephone number and an originating instruction that originating should be performed to said originating telephone number.

9. The master communication device according to claim 8, characterized by further comprising storage means for storing a pager ID of each of the slave communication devices to which control has been delegated, and characterized in that said control means reads said pager ID from said storage means and controls said wireless communication means to perform originating to the pager ID of said slave communication device such that said pager signal reception means of said slave communication device receives the pager signal including the originating telephone number and the originating instruction that originating should be performed to said originating telephone number.

10. The master communication device according to claim 9, characterized by further comprising transmission/reception means for receiving the pager ID from each of the slave communication devices in said control delegation and performing transmission and reception of various signals to and from each of the slave communication devices, and

characterized in that said control means stores each of the pager IDs received from each of the slave communication devices in said storage means and creates slave IDs corresponding in number to the slave communication devices to which control is to be delegated, and controls said transmission/reception means to transmit individually each of the slave IDs to each of the slave communication devices to which control is to be delegated.

11. A master/slave communication device comprising a master communication device having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless communication line provided by a host station and one or more slave communication devices receiving control delegation from said master communication device to perform communication using the wireless communication line for said master communication device, and

characterized in that said master communication device comprises wireless communication means for performing wireless communication through said host station by transmitting said master ID to said host station, and control means for controlling said wireless communication means, and

each of said slave communication devices comprises storage means for storing said master ID and a slave ID recognizable by said master communication device, wireless communication means for performing communication using the wireless telephone line for said master communication device through said host station, pager signal reception means for receiving a pager signal of a radio paging system, and control means for controlling said wireless communication means based on a predetermined pager signal received by said pager signal reception means.

12. The master/slave communication device according to claim 11, characterized in that said control means of said slave communication device normally turns off the power of said wireless communication means, and when said pager signal reception means receives a pager signal, determines whether or not the pager signal includes an originating instruction that originating should be performed to an originating telephone number, and when it determines that it is not included, performs control to maintain the power of said wireless communication means off.

13. The master/slave communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that said control means of said slave communication device performs control to turn on the power of said wireless communication means when it determines that the originating instruction that originating should be performed to the originating telephone number is included.

14. The master/slave communication device according to claim 13, characterized in that said control means of said slave communication device controls said wireless communication means to perform originating to an originating telephone apparatus of the originating telephone number using said master ID after the power of said wireless communication means is turned on.

15. The master/slave communication device according to any one of claims 11 to 14, characterized in that, when said pager signal reception means receives the pager signal including the originating telephone number of said originating telephone apparatus, said control means of said slave communication device performs control to notify a user of the fact that a telephone call should be made to the originating telephone apparatus of said originating telephone number.

16. The master/slave communication device according to any one of claims 11 to 15, characterized in that each of the slave communication devices comprises transmission/reception means for receiving the slave ID created by said master communication device in said control delegation and performing transmission and reception of various signals to and from said master communication device, and when said transmission/reception means receives said slave ID, said control means of said each slave communication device controls said storage means to store said slave ID in said storage means.

17. The master/slave communication device according to claim 16, characterized in that said storage means of each of the slave communication devices has a pager ID stored therein for the page signal received by said pager signal reception means, and said control means of said each slave communication device controls said storage means and said transmission/reception means to read and transmit said pager ID to said master communication device in said control delegation.

18. The master/slave communication device according to any one of claims 11 to 17, characterized in that said master communication device comprises storage means for storing a pager ID of each of the slave communication devices to which control has been delegated, and said control means of said master communication device reads said pager ID from said storage means and controls said wireless communication means to perform originating to the pager ID of said slave communication device such that said pager signal reception means of said slave communication device receives the pager signal including the originating telephone number and the originating instruction that originating should be performed to said originating telephone number.

19. The master/slave communication device according to claim 18, characterized in that said master communication device comprises transmission/reception means for receiving the pager ID from each of the slave communication devices in said control delegation and performing transmission and reception of various signals to and from each of the slave communication devices, and said control means of said master communication device stores each pager ID received from each of the slave communication devices in said storage means and creates slave IDs corresponding in number to the slave communication devices to which control is to be delegated, and controls said transmission/reception means to transmit individually each of the slave IDs to each of the slave communication devices to which control is to be delegated.

20. The master/slave communication device according to any one of claims 11 to 19, characterized in that, when said wireless communication means receives, during communication with an originating telephone apparatus, a signal indicating an originating telephone number of the originating telephone apparatus and a signal specifying any of the slave communication devices to which control has been delegated originated from said originating telephone apparatus, said control means disconnects the communication with said telephone apparatus and controls said wireless communication means such that said pager signal reception means of said slave communication device receives a pager signal including an originating instruction that originating should be performed to said originating telephone number.

21. The master/slave communication device according to any one of claims 11 to 20, characterized in that said pager signal reception means of said slave communication device receives a pager signal including the originating telephone number of the originating telephone apparatus and an originating instruction that originating should be performed to said originating telephone number originated from the originating telephone apparatus.

22. A wireless communication system characterized by comprising:

a master communication device having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless telephone line;

one or more slave communication devices receiving control delegation from said master communication device to perform communication using the wireless telephone line for said master communication device; and

a host station for performing control of communication using said wireless telephone line and transmission control of a pager signal of a radio paging system, and

characterized in that said master communication device comprises wireless communication means for performing wireless communication through said host station by transmitting said master ID to said host station, and control means for controlling said wireless communication means, and

each of said slave communication devices comprises storage means for storing said master ID and a slave ID recognizable by said master communication device, wireless communication means for performing communication using the wireless telephone line for said master communication device through said host station, pager signal reception means for receiving a pager signal of the radio paging system, and control means for controlling said wireless communication means based on a predetermined pager signal received by said pager signal reception means.

23. The wireless communication system according to claim 22, characterized in that said host station has a plurality of radio signal transmission/reception means for performing transmission/reception of a radio signal using said wireless telephone line and receiving a radio signal originated from said wireless communication means of said master communication device or said wireless communication means of said each slave communication device to perform location registration.