Portable telephone system using stratified exchange system

• US 5,210,786 A
• Filed: 05/10/1991
• Issued: 05/11/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Iwatsu Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Iwatsu Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Itoh, Sadao
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shehata, M.
• Application Number:
  US07/700,998
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/59, 379/63
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/022 Paging systems personal calling arrangements or devices G08B3/1008; selective calling networks H04W84/022
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration

Abstract

A portable telephone system is disclosed in which a plurality of i-th class exchanges, which accommodate key service units of a plurality of portable telephone sets present in each service area, and at least one (i+1)th class exchange which accommodates the plurality of i-th class exchanges through junction lines, are stratified to form an exchange system so that i=1, 2, 3, . . . , and so that the (i.1)th class exchange covers all service areas. The exchange system has a function whereby information which specifies the home area of each portable telephone set and the portable telephone set in distinction from each other is registered in the i-th class exchange and the (i+1)th class exchange, which administer the home area.

Claims

1. A channel setting system in a portable telephone system, in which a plurality of i-th class exchanges, which accommodate directly or through at least one (i-1)th exchange, at least one key service unit of a plurality of portable telephone sets present in each service area, and at least one (i+1)th class exchange, which accommodates the plurality of i-th class exchanges through junction lines, are stratified to form an exchange system so that i=2, 3, 4, 5 [1, 2, 3, . . . , ] and so that the (i+1)th class exchange covers all of the service areas through the i-th class exchanges, said number i being equal to a number of stratified steps minus one, said exchange system having a function whereby information which specifies a home area predetermined from the service areas for each of the portable telephone sets and the portable telephone sets in distinction from each other is registered in a memory in each of the i-th class exchanges and in a memory in the (i-1)th class and (i+1)th class exchange which administer the home area;

and in which a wide area communication i-th radio base station is provided for a plurality of portable telephone sets which are connected to one of the i-th class exchanges and are capable of being called and receiving a communication signal in the same area as the service area of said one of the i-th class exchanges;

self-identification information of each of the plurality of portable telephone sets contains self-identification information corresponding to the i-th and (i+1)th class exchanges;

in a case where any one of the portable telephone sets is called from a calling party of an incoming call in the service area of said one of the (i-1) class or i-th class exchanges and does not answer to an incoming call signal from the key service unit in which the position of the called one of the portable telephone sets has been registered, the i-th radio base station performs wide area calling; and

when the called one of the portable telephone sets has sent back an answer signal to said one of the (i-1)th class or i-th class exchanges through the key service unit in the service area or through some other transmitting means during a fixed period time, communication channels are set up between said one of the i-th class exchanges or any one of the (i-1), (i-2), . . . exchanges and first class radio base stations and the called one of the portable telephone sets and between the key service unit and the called one of the portable telephone sets.

2. A channel setting system in a portable telephone system, in which a plurality of i-th class exchanges, which accommodate, directly or through at least one (i-1)th exchange, at least one key service unit of a plurality of portable telephone sets present in each service area, and at least one (i-1)th class exchange, which accommodates the plurality of i-th class exchanges through junction lines, are stratified to form an exchange system so that i=2, 3, 4, 5 and so that the (i+1)th class exchange covers all of the service areas through the i-th class exchanges, said number i being equal to the number of stratified steps minus one, said exchange system having a function whereby information which specifies a home area predetermined from the service area for each of the portable telephone sets and the portable telephone sets in distinction from each other is registered in a memory in each of the (i-1)th class and i-th class exchanges and in a memory in the (i+1)th class exchange which administer the home area and in a memory in each of the (i-1)th class and i-th class exchange which administer the service area where any one of the portable telephone sets is present;

and in which a wide area communication i-th radio base station is provided for a plurality of portable telephone sets which are connected to one of the i-th class exchanges and are capable of being called and receiving a communication signal in the same area as the service area of said one of the i-th class exchanges;

self-identification information of each of the plurality of portable telephone sets contains self-identification information corresponding to the i-th and (i+1)th class exchanges;

in a case where any one of the portable telephone sets is called from a calling party of an incoming call in the service area of said one of (i-1)th class or the i-th class exchanges and does not answer to an incoming call signal from the key service unit in which the position of the called one of the portable telephone sets has been registered, the i-th radio base station performs wide area calling; and

when the called one of the portable telephone sets has sent back an answer signal to said one of the (i-1)th class or i-th class exchanges through the key service unit in the service area or through some other transmitting means with a fixed period time, communication channels are set up between said one of the i-th class exchanges or any one of the (i-1), (i-2), . . . exchanges and first class radio base stations and the called one of the portable telephone sets and between the key service unit and the called one of the portable telephone sets.