Emergency Mobile Radio Telephone with Reduced Key Set
First Claim
1. A wireless communication device including a digital mobile telephone circuit, a rechargeable battery, a compact antenna, a ringing tone generator, a basic two-way microphone device for providing the facility of immediate communication or emergency telephone connection, comprising:
- a simplified array of press pads to initiate a preprogrammed unique subscriber telephone number and to answer an incoming call; and
a programmable identity module storing at least one unique subscriber telephone number wherein at least one button of said simple array of press pads automatically initiates a call of a unique subscriber telephone number from said preprogrammed identity module and wherein said programmable identity module is adapted to be preprogrammed remotely by another mobile phone linked by radio path.
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Abstract
A mobile radio telephone or portable hot link communicator is described which provides a simple, efficient and effective means of communication to enable a child or elderly person to communicate with a known parent, relative or friend carrying a standard mobile telephone. The hot-link communicator is wrist worn or hangs from a cord around the wearer'"'"'s neck. The hot-link communicator is comprises a preprogrammed module that links it with preferably only one other mobile or fixed telephone. The hot-link communicator comprises very basic functionality and, in some embodiments, no display—only a preprogrammed dialing button and an answer button. The hot-link communicator makes possible communication between parents needing to communicate with their children and between supervising adults and elderly persons needing assistance in that the children and elderly persons do not need to input number in sequence via a key pad or search for a telephone in the rain and dark.
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1. A wireless communication device including a digital mobile telephone circuit, a rechargeable battery, a compact antenna, a ringing tone generator, a basic two-way microphone device for providing the facility of immediate communication or emergency telephone connection, comprising:
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a simplified array of press pads to initiate a preprogrammed unique subscriber telephone number and to answer an incoming call; and
a programmable identity module storing at least one unique subscriber telephone number wherein at least one button of said simple array of press pads automatically initiates a call of a unique subscriber telephone number from said preprogrammed identity module and wherein said programmable identity module is adapted to be preprogrammed remotely by another mobile phone linked by radio path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for initiating a call from a portable hot link communicator comprising a digital mobile telephone circuit, a rechargeable battery, a compact antenna, a ringing tone generator, a basic two-way microphone device for providing the facility of immediate communication or emergency telephone connection, a simplified array of press pads to initiate a pre-programmed unique subscriber telephone number and to answer an incoming call, a programmable identity module storing at least one unique subscriber telephone number wherein at least one button of said simplified array of press pads automatically initiates a call of a unique subscriber telephone number from said pre-programmed identity module, the method comprising the step of:
pre-programming said programmable identity module with said at least one unique subscriber telephone number by means of any mobile telephone linked over a radio path comprising the same type of identity module in order to link said portable hot link communicator to any particular mobile or fixed telephone. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for answering an incoming call at a portable hot link communicator comprising a digital mobile telephone circuit, a rechargeable battery, a compact antenna, a ringing tone generator, a basic two-way microphone device for providing the facility of immediate communication or emergency telephone connection, a simplified array of press pads to initiate a pre-programmed unique subscriber telephone number and to answer an incoming call from a pre-programmed unique subscriber telephone number, a programmable identity module storing at least one unique subscriber telephone number wherein at least one button of said simplified array of press pads automatically initiates a call of a unique subscriber telephone number from said pre-programmed identity module the method comprising the steps of:
pre-programming said programmable identity module with said at least one unique subscriber telephone number by means of any mobile telephone linked over a radio path comprising the same type of identity module in order to link said portable hot link communicator to any particular mobile or fixed telephone. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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