Method and circuit for setting dialing data in a wireless telephone

• US 4,761,806 A
• Filed: 07/21/1987
• Issued: 08/02/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Toki, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): Lev, Robert
• Application Number:
  US07/075,891
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 379/61, 379/62, 379/63, 455/54
• US Class Current: 455/564
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72505 Radio link set-up procedures

Abstract

An information storing apparatus is provided in a radio telephone apparatus having a base unit coupled to a wired telephone line and a radio telephone set. The base unit includes a memory for storing telephone number information and line relay for making or breaking a speech path between the base unit and the wired telephone line. When a registration signal is transmitted from the radio telephone set, the base unit is disconnected from the wired telephone line to break the speech path. Thereafter, if a dial signal from the radio telephone set is received, the received dial signal is stored in the memory as the telephone number information used for a reduced dialog operation. If a calling signal arrives at the wired telephone line while the dial signal is being stored, the calling signal is detected by another telephone apparatus coupled to the wired telephone line. Therefore, the telephone apparatus generates a ringing signal in response to the detected signal.

Claims

1. An apparatus provided in a radio telephone apparatus for storing telephone number information to be used for a reduced dialing operation, said radio telephone apparatus having a base unit coupled to a wired telephone line and a radio telephone set and said radio telephone set being connected to said base unit through a radio channel, said apparatus comprising:

dial means for generating a dial signal in response to a dialing operation;

registration means for generating a control signal representing a storage request for telephone number information;

means for disconnecting said wired telephone line from said base unit electrically to break a speech path, in response to the control signal;

memory means provided in said base unit for storing the dial signal from said dial means as telephone number information in response to the control signal; and

notification means connected to said wired telephone line for detecting an incoming telephone call from said wired telephone line and generating a ringing signal for notifying the user if an incoming telephone call is detected while said telephone number information is being stored.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said registration means is provided in said radio telephone set and transmits the control signal to said base unit through the radio channel in response to an operation of a registration key.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said registration means generates the control signal in response to the dial signal from said dial means by a particular dialing operation.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said memory means is adapted to store a plurality of dial signais.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said notification means is another telephone apparatus.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said notification means is provided in said base unit.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising;

confirmation means for generating a confirmation signal for notifying the user if the dial signal is stored in said memory means.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the confirmation signal comprises a tone signal.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the confirmation signal comprises a synthesized voice message.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the synthesized voice message comprises a reduced dial number message and a telephone number message corresponding to the stored dial signal.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

means for generating a calling origination signal;

means for connecting said wired telephone line to said base unit electrically to make a speech path, in response to the calling origination signal; and

means for preventing generating the calling origination signal while the dial signal is stored in said memory means.

12. In a radio telephone apparatus having a base unit coupled to a wired telephone line and a radio telephone set said radio telephone set being connected to said base unit through a radio channel, a method for storing telephone number information to be used for a reduced dialing operation, comprising the steps of:

(a) generating a dial signal in response to a dialing operation;

(b) generating a control signal representing a storage request for telephone number information;

(c) disconnecting said wired telephone line from said base unit electrically to break a speech path, in response to the control signal;

(d) storing the generated dial signal in a memory of said base unit as a telephone number information, in response to the control signal;

(e) detecting an incoming telephone call from said wired telephone line; and

(f) generating a ringing signal for notifying the user if an incoming telephone call is detected while the storing is being carried out.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising the step of:

generating a confirmation signal for notifying a user if said dial signal is stored in said memory.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the confirmation signal comprises a tone signal.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the confirmation signal comprises a synthesized voice message.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the synthesized voice message comprises a reduced dial number message and a telephone number message corresponding to the stored dial signal.

17. The method of claim 12 further comprising the steps of:

generating a calling origination signal;

connecting said wired telephone line to said base unit electrically to make a speech path, in response to the calling origi-nation signal; and

preventing generating the calling origination signal while the dial signal is stored in said memory.