Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Doorbell Chimes
First Claim
1. A doorbell chime apparatus comprising:
- a wired-doorbell button input;
a wireless-doorbell button input;
an audio transducer that is responsive to both the wired-doorbell button input and the wireless-doorbell button input and having an audible sound output.
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Abstract
A doorbell chime apparatus has an audio transducer that is responsive to both a wired-doorbell button input and a wireless-doorbell button input. Each of these inputs can respond, if desired, to a plurality of corresponding doorbell buttons. By one approach, the audio transducer can provide any of a plurality of selectable differentiated audible sounds. So configured, the resultant apparatus can provide a differentiated audible signal regarding which of the plurality of doorbell buttons is being annuciated. These teachings will accommodate providing a mains-dependent power input that provides operating power to at least one of the wired-doorbell button input and the wireless-doorbell button input. These teachings will also accommodate, in lieu of the foregoing or in combination therewith, providing a mains-supplemental power input that provides operating power to at least one of the wired-doorbell button input and the wireless-doorbell button input (at least when mains power is absent).
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1. A doorbell chime apparatus comprising:
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a wired-doorbell button input; a wireless-doorbell button input; an audio transducer that is responsive to both the wired-doorbell button input and the wireless-doorbell button input and having an audible sound output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A doorbell chime apparatus comprising:
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a wireless receiver; an input electrically coupled in series with a doorbell button and a mains power transformer; a doorbell chimes annunciator that provides an audible chimes annunciation in response to either of the wireless receiver and the doorbell button. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A doorbell chime apparatus comprising:
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at least one doorbell-button interface; a doorbell chimes annunciator that is responsive to the doorbell-button interface; a mains-dependent power source that provides operating power to both the at least one doorbell-button interface and the doorbell chimes annunciator; a mains-supplemental power source that provides operating power to both the at least one doorbell-button interface and the doorbell chimes annunciator, at least when the mains-dependent power source fails to provide operating power thereto. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method comprising:
at a doorbell chime apparatus; detecting which of a plurality of doorbell buttons has been asserted, wherein the plurality of doorbell buttons comprises at least one wired doorbell button and at least one wireless doorbell button, to provide a detected doorbell button; identifying which of a plurality of candidate audible sounds was previously correlated with the detected doorbell button to provide an identified audible sound; rendering the identified audible sound audible to thereby provide an audible annunciation that uniquely indicates that the detected doorbell button has been asserted. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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