Cordless telephone system with a private automatic branch exchange

• US 5,259,017 A
• Filed: 11/06/1991
• Issued: 11/02/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Langmantel, Ernst
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Application Number:
  US07/768,082
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/59, 379/60, 379/61, 379/62, 379/201, 379/210, 379/211, 379/212
• US Class Current: 455/555
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13096 Digital apparatus individually associated with a subscriber line, digital line circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13141 Hunting for free outlet, circuit or channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1322 PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1328 Call transfer, e.g. in PBX
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

Base stations (FSn) of cordless telephones are connected via subscriber lines (TL) to a private automatic branch exchange (PABX). There are fewer base stations (FSn) than mobile sets (MT) and from each base station (FSn), a connection can be set up to any mobile set (MT). The change of a mobile set (MT) into the radio cell (FBn) of another base station (FSn) is updated via the call-forwarding and follow-me facilities of the private automatic branching exchange (PABX). For this active subscriber administration by the private automatic branch exchange (PABX), the individual identifications of the mobile sets (MT) are exchanged with the respective base stations (FSn) even if no calls are being made. As a result, a cordless subscriber can be reached, especially in the case of wide-area private automatic branch exchanges (PABX), even if he is moving out of the radio cell (FBn) of one base station (FSn) and changes into the radio cell (FBn) of another one. The base stations (FSn) form a microcellular system.

Claims

1. A cordless telephone system comprising a plurality of mobile sets and a plurality of base stations, the base stations being connected via subscriber lines to a private automatic branch exchange, several mobile sets of the plurality of mobile sets being allocated to one base station of the plurality of base stations and subscriber numbers of the private automatic branch exchange being allocated to the mobile sets, the subscriber numbers being convertible by the base stations into corresponding individual identifications of the mobile sets and the base stations being set up at different locations, radio cells of the base stations covering different areas and a current allocation of the mobile sets to the radio cells being stored in the private automatic branch exchange and an incoming call being transferred from the private automatic branch exchange to the base station in the radio cell of which the mobile set of the call subscribed is located, means for periodically exchanging the individual identification of the mobile sets with the base stations and means for utilizing a conventional facility of the private automatic branch exchange for updating the allocation.

3. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the private automatic branch exchange has a call-forwarding facility, wherein an initial configuration with the allocation of each mobile set to a particular base station is established, wherein an internal connection for transmitting the subscriber number of a handed-over mobile set to an initially determined base station is set up by another base station when a mobile set changes from the radio cell of one base station to the radio cell of another base station and wherein the call-forwarding of the subscriber number of the mobile set to the new base station is established by the initially determined base station.

4. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the private automatic branch exchange has a follow-me facility and wherein call-forwarding of the subscriber number allocated to the mobile set is established by the base station into whose radio cell the cordless subscriber has moved.

5. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein base stations are connected to the private automatic branch exchange via more than one subscriber line and the subscriber lines are combined to form a line group in the private automatic branch exchange.

6. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein base stations are connected to the private automatic branch exchange via more than one subscriber line and the private automatic branch exchange has a call-redirection facility which, in the case of an incoming call, redirects the incoming call from a busy subscriber line to another subscriber line of the same base station.

7. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each base station of the plurality of base stations has an interface module for adaptation to the subscriber procedures of different private automatic branch exchanges.

8. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the case of digital radio transmission between the base station and the mobile set, the mobile set has an adapter module to which data terminals are connect.

2. A cordless telephone system comprising a plurality of mobile sets and a plurality of base stations, the base stations being connected via subscriber lines to a private automatic branch exchange, several mobile sets of the plurality of mobile sets being allocated to one base station of the plurality of base stations and subscriber numbers of the private automatic branch exchange being allocated to the mobile sets, the subscriber numbers being convertible by the base stations into corresponding individual identifications of the mobile sets and the base stations being at different locations, radio cells of the base stations covering different areas, each base station sending a periodic identification, the individual identification of a mobile set being exchanged with the base station during a change from one radio cell to another radio cell and current allocation of the mobile sets to the radio cells of the base stations being stored in the private automatic branch exchange and an incoming call being transferred from the private automatic branch exchange to the base station in the radio cell of which the mobile set of the call subscriber is located, a conventional facility of the private automatic branch exchange being utilized for updating the allocation.

9. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the private automatic branch exchange has a call-forwarding facility, wherein an initial configuration with the allocation of each mobile set to a particular base station is established, wherein an internal connection for transmitting the subscriber number of a handed-over mobile set to an initially determined base station is set up by another base station when a mobile set changes from the radio cell of one base station to the radio cell of another base station and wherein the call-forwarding of the subscriber number of the mobile set to the new base station is established by the initially determined base station.

10. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the private automatic branch exchange has a follow-me facility and wherein call-forwarding of the subscriber number allocated to the mobile set is established by the base station into whose radio cell the cordless subscriber has moved.

11. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein base stations are connected to the private automatic branch exchange via more than one subscriber line and the subscriber lines are combined to form a line group in the private automatic branch exchange.

12. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein base stations are connected to the private automatic branch exchange via more than one subscriber line and the private automatic branch exchange has a call-redirection facility which, in the case of an incoming call, redirects the incoming call from a busy subscriber line to another subscriber line of the same base station.

13. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein each base station of the plurality of base stations has an interface module for adaptation to the subscriber procedures of different private automatic branch exchanges.

14. The cordless telephone system as claimed in claim 2, wherein, in the case of digital radio transmission between the base station and the mobile set, the mobile set has an adapter module to which data terminals are connected.