Telecommunication system having a capability of changing the alerting tone
First Claim
1. A telecommunication system comprising:
- a network for transmitting calls,a plurality of terminals connected to said network for communicating to each other via said network and including terminals at a calling side and terminals at a reception side, anda reception side switching station, connected to said network and to a terminal of said plurality of terminals, located at the reception side for receiving a call from a terminal at the calling side, transmitted via said network, and directing said call to said terminal at the reception side;
said reception side switching station including;
data base means including a plurality of storage areas corresponding to said terminals at the reception side, wherein each of said plurality of storage areas stores a plurality of alerting tone patterns,alerting tone selection means supplied with information, received from the terminal at the calling side, for identifying said terminal at the reception side, said information including alerting tone pattern data indicative of an alert tone pattern to be transmitted to and activated at said terminal at the reception side, andalerting tone control means for controlling said terminal at the reception side on the basis of said alert tone pattern and generating a corresponding alerting tone at the terminal at the reception side.
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Abstract
A telecommunication system comprises a network for transmitting information, a plurality of terminals connected to the network for communicating to each other, a data base provided in the network and having a plurality of storage areas corresponding to the plurality of terminals for storing a plurality of alerting patterns, alerting tone selector for reading, on the basis of information for identifying a calling terminal, an alerting pattern specified at the calling terminal when there is a call incoming from the calling terminal to a called terminal, from a storage area in the data base corresponding to the called terminal, and alerting tone controller for controlling a called terminal on the basis of the alerting pattern and generating a corresponding alerting tone at the called terminal when there is an incoming call.
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16 Claims
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1. A telecommunication system comprising:
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a network for transmitting calls, a plurality of terminals connected to said network for communicating to each other via said network and including terminals at a calling side and terminals at a reception side, and a reception side switching station, connected to said network and to a terminal of said plurality of terminals, located at the reception side for receiving a call from a terminal at the calling side, transmitted via said network, and directing said call to said terminal at the reception side; said reception side switching station including; data base means including a plurality of storage areas corresponding to said terminals at the reception side, wherein each of said plurality of storage areas stores a plurality of alerting tone patterns, alerting tone selection means supplied with information, received from the terminal at the calling side, for identifying said terminal at the reception side, said information including alerting tone pattern data indicative of an alert tone pattern to be transmitted to and activated at said terminal at the reception side, and alerting tone control means for controlling said terminal at the reception side on the basis of said alert tone pattern and generating a corresponding alerting tone at the terminal at the reception side. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A switching station for a telecommunication system having a network and a plurality of terminals and being adapted for connection to the network and to said plurality of terminals for receiving a call from a calling terminal via said network and directing said call to a destination terminal of said plurality of terminals;
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the switching station comprising; data base means including a plurality of storage areas corresponding to said plurality of terminals, wherein each of said plurality of storage areas stores a plurality of alerting tone patterns, alerting tone selection means supplied with information from said calling terminal, said information identifying said destination terminal and further containing alert tone data for specifying an alert tone pattern to be transmitted to and activated at said destination terminal, said alerting tone selection means reading out said alerting tone pattern specified by said alert tone data from a storage area of said data base means for said destination terminal, when there is a call incoming from said calling terminal to said destination terminal, and alerting tone control means, coupled to said alerting tone selection means, for controlling said destination terminal by said alerting tone pattern read out from said storage area and generating a corresponding alerting tone at said destination terminal.
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