Communication system having an automatic dialer

• US 4,964,159 A
• Filed: 08/21/1989
• Issued: 10/16/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Datanet Corporation
• Original Assignee: Datanet Corporation
• Inventors: Son, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dwyer, James L.
• Application Number:
  US07/396,158
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 379/356, 379/355, 379/354, 379/357, 379/358, 379/359, 379/216, 379/221
• US Class Current: 379/355.08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27485 Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27495 implemented by means of discrete electronic components, i.e. neither programmable nor microprocessor-controlled H04M1/27457-H04M1/2749 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/904 Auto-calling

Abstract

A communication system having an automatic dialer, which generates a signal for selection of a communication line from a plurality of communication lines belonging to a plurality of common carriers before communication is made between a calling subscriber and a called subscriber. The automatic dialer automatically transmits the signal for specifying one of a plurality of signal paths coupled to the called subscriber in addition to other necessary signals. The necessary signals may be automatically transmitted with the minimum dial number, resulting in easier operation of the system.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a calling subscriber telephone;

a telephone switchboard assigned to a common carrier;

an external system connected to said telephone switchboard for generating a predetermined tone signal;

an automatic dialer for sending a calling signal from said calling subscriber telephone to a called subscriber telephone, said automatic dialer coupled to said calling subscriber telephone, and said automatic dialer having first memory means for storing dialed information provided from said calling subscriber telephone, second memory means for storing predetermined additional information corresponding to each of common carriers, third memory means for storing specific discriminating information corresponding to a portion of said dialed information stored in said first memory means, read means for reading out a portion of said dialed information from said first memory means, access means for reading out said specific discriminating information stored in said third memory means in response to output data of said read means, transmitting means for transmitting said predetermined additional information stored in said second memory means together with said dialed information stored in said first memory means to said telephone switchboard when said specific discriminating information stored in said third memory is accessed, and writing means for controlling a writing information of said third memory means on the basis of said tone signal provided from said external system via said telephone switchboard; and

a communication circuit connected between said telephone switchboard and said automatic dialer.

2. A communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said discriminating information corresponds to one of a plurality of common carriers.