Cellular Docking Station
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- an interface unit for facilitating communication with a cellular telephone; and
a communications interface controller forreceiving, from a telephone handset at a customer premises, an outgoing communication,determining whether the cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the apparatus, andforwarding the outgoing communication to the interface unit based on a determination that the cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the apparatus, wherein the interface unit is further configured for forwarding the outgoing communication to the cellular telephone for transmission to a cellular mobile radiotelephone system.
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Abstract
A system for communicating with the user of a cellular telephone via the cellular mobile radio (CMR) system and the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A communications interface appends the telephone exchange number of an outgoing communication to include an identifier unique to the communications interface. The outgoing communication is transmitted by the cellular telephone to the CMR system, which recognizes and verifies the outgoing communication as originating with the communications interface. Accordingly, the origination of the outgoing communication from a communications interface is documented prior to forwarding the outgoing communication to its intended recipient via the PSTN. Communications incoming to a communications interface are authenticated as such, and a record as to this is created, prior to forwarding the incoming communication to the cellular telephone.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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an interface unit for facilitating communication with a cellular telephone; and a communications interface controller for receiving, from a telephone handset at a customer premises, an outgoing communication, determining whether the cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the apparatus, and forwarding the outgoing communication to the interface unit based on a determination that the cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the apparatus, wherein the interface unit is further configured for forwarding the outgoing communication to the cellular telephone for transmission to a cellular mobile radiotelephone system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a communications interface comprising a communications interface controller, an outgoing communication from a telephone handset at a customer premises; determining, by the communications interface controller, whether a cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the communications interface; forwarding, by the communications interface controller, the outgoing communication to an interface unit of the communications interface based on a determination that the cellular telephone is in communicative contact with the communications interface; and forwarding, by the interface unit, the outgoing communication to the cellular telephone for transmission to a cellular mobile radiotelephone system. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An apparatus comprising:
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an interface unit for facilitating communication with a cellular telephone; and a communications interface controller for receiving a verification sequence from an authentication unit associated with a cellular mobile radiotelephone system, the verification sequence for confirming that an outgoing telephone communications request received by the cellular mobile radiotelephone system originated from the apparatus, performing a predetermined manipulation of the verification sequence, and relaying a result of the predetermined manipulation of the verification sequence back to the authentication unit associated with the cellular mobile radiotelephone system.
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