Attendant console for telephone exchange

• US 5,046,087 A
• Filed: 12/12/1989
• Issued: 09/03/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sakai, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US07/448,082
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 379/201, 379/216, 379/157, 379/267
• US Class Current: 379/267
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/428 Arrangements for placing incoming calls on hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/60 Semi-automatic systems, i.e. in which the numerical selection of the outgoing line is under the control of an operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/62 Keyboard equipment in key telephone systems H04M9/003

Abstract

An attendant console includes a memory section, an automatic operation data management section, a signal generation section, and an input/output signal processing section. The memory section stores automatic operation data representing whether call handling sequences are automatically operated. The automatic operation data management section sets the automatic operation data in the memory section in accordance with a keyboard operation performed by a console operator. The signal generation section generates a signal representing an event equivalent to a keyboard operation performed by the console operator in accordance with the automatic operation data read out from the memory section. The input/output signal processing section transmits a signal from the signal generation section and the keyboard to a telephone exchange, and receives a signal from the exchange.

Claims

1. An attendant console comprising:

first means capable of storing automatic operation data representing whether call handling sequences are automatically operated;

second means for setting said automatic operation data into said first means in accordance with a keyboard operation performed by a console operation;

third means for reading out said automatic operation data set in said first means and for outputting a signal representing an event equivalent to said keyboard operation performed by said console operator in accordance with said automatic operation data read out from said first means; and

fourth means for transmitting said signal representing said event equivalent to said keyboard operation from said third means to a telephone exchange in response to a keyboard signal from a keyboard.

2. An attendant console according to claim 1, wherein said first means comprises a memory section, said second means comprises an automatic operation data management section, said third means comprises a signal generation section, and said fourth means comprises an input/output signal processing section.

3. An attendant console according to claim 2, wherein said memory section includes a set of memory areas, each of said memory areas capable of storing said automatic operation data representing whether call handling sequences are automatically operated.

4. An attendant console according to claim 3, wherein said call handling sequences include an answer to an incoming call, an establishment of a three-way conference, camp-on activation, camp-on tone sending, and call holding.

5. An attendant console according to claim 2, wherein said automatic operation data management section includes a key analysis unit, a set data processing unit, and a menu display unit.

6. An attendant console according to claim 2, wherein said signal generation section includes a signal analysis unit and a signal generation section.

7. An attendant console according to claim 2, wherein said input/output signal processing section includes a key analysis unit, a display control unit, a keyboard signal receiving unit, a signal analysis unit, an exchange signal input/output unit, and a control signal transmitting/receiving unit.