Digital radiotelephone system

• US 5,572,531 A
• Filed: 03/07/1995
• Issued: 11/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sumi, Yuji, Nitta, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Safourek, Benedict V.
• Application Number:
  US08/399,485
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 379/56, 379/58, 379/63, 340/825.47, 455/31.1, 455/34.1, 455/38.1, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 370/62, 370/112
• US Class Current: 370/537
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72505 Radio link set-up procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

A digital radio telephone system for establishing communications between a main unit and a sub unit and between a plurality sub units. The system includes a main unit and a plurality of sub units. In order to establish communications with a sub unit, a calling signal including the sub unit extension number is first sent through the main unit to the sub unit. If the sub unit corresponding to an extension number in the calling signal is available, a calling acceptable signal is transmitted by the sub unit. The main unit includes an extension number multiplexer which multiplexes a plurality of sub unit extension numbers into one calling signal. Therefore, a calling signal from the main unit and calling signals from a plurality of sub units are multiplexed (combined) into a single calling signal. The main unit need only transmit a single multiplexed calling signal instead of a plurality of individual calling signals to each sub unit.

Claims

1. A digital radiotelephone system having a plurality of sub units and a main unit,

said main unit comprising:

a radio section for conducting radio communication with said plurality of sub units;

a number multiplexer for multiplexing a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate a calling information signal stream, wherein each sub unit number corresponds to one of said plurality of sub units and each sub unit number is represented by a respectively different portion of said signal stream;

a controller for controlling the transmission of the calling information signal stream to said plurality of sub units simultaneously.

2. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 1, further comprising a keyboard, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes a plurality of sub unit numbers input from said keyboard to generate the calling information signal stream.

3. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 1, further comprising a keyboard, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes sub unit numbers input from said keyboard and sub unit numbers transmitted by the sub units, to generate the calling information signal stream, wherein the sub unit numbers are input from said keyboard at the same time said radio section receives at least one sub unit number from said sub units.

4. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 1, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate the calling information signal stream by converting each digit of the plurality of sub unit numbers to a specific bit binary number, and forming a bit configuration in which delimiters of a specific bit binary number are inserted between the sub unit numbers converted to binary numbers.

5. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 1, wherein said controller controls the calling information signal stream generated by said number multiplexer which is transmitted by a carrier radiowave emitted from said radio section.

6. A digital radio telephone system having a main unit connected to a telephone line and a plurality of sub units for conducting radio communication with said main unit, said main unit comprising:

a radio section for conducting communication with a plurality of said sub units;

a number multiplexer for multiplexing a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate a calling information signal stream, wherein each sub unit number is represented by a respectively different portion of said signal stream;

a controller for controlling the transmission of the calling information signal stream to said sub units simultaneously;

each of said plurality of sub units comprising;

a sub unit radio section for conducting radio communication with said main unit;

a sub unit controller for controlling said sub unit radio section to conduct radio communication with said main unit if the calling information signal stream transmitted from said main unit and received by said sub unit radio section includes a sub unit number corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of sub units.

7. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 6, said main unit further comprising a keyboard, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes a plurality of sub unit numbers input from said keyboard to generate the calling information signal stream.

8. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 6, said main unit further comprising a keyboard, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes sub unit numbers input from said keyboard and sub unit numbers transmitted by the sub units, to generate the calling information signal stream, wherein the sub unit numbers are input from said keyboard at the same time said radio section receives at least one sub unit number from said sub units, and

each of said sub units further comprises a sub unit keyboard, wherein said sub unit controller controls the sub unit radio section to transmit a sub unit number to said main unit when the sub unit number is input from said sub unit keyboard.

9. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 6, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate the calling information signal stream by converting each digit of the plurality of sub unit numbers to a specific bit binary number, and forming a bit configuration in which delimiters of a specific bit binary number are inserted between the sub unit numbers converted to binary numbers.

10. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 6, wherein said controller controls the calling information signal stream generated by said number multiplexer which is transmitted by a carrier radiowave emitted from said radio section.

11. A digital radiotelephone system including a main unit and a plurality of sub units which communicate with said main unit, said main unit comprising:

a radio section for conducting radio communication with said main unit;

a number multiplexer for multiplexing a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate a calling information signal stream, wherein each sub unit number corresponds to one of said plurality of sub units and each sub unit number is represented by a respectively different portion of said signal stream;

a controller for controlling the transmission of the calling information signal stream to said plurality of sub units simultaneously.

12. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 11, further comprising a keyboard, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes a plurality of sub unit numbers input from said keyboard to generate the calling information signal stream.

13. A digital radiotelephone system having a main unit connected to a telephone line and a plurality of sub units for conducting radio communication with said main unit, said main unit comprising:

a radio section for conducting radio communication with a plurality of said sub units;

a number multiplexer for multiplexing a plurality of sub unit numbers to generate a calling information signal stream, wherein each sub unit number corresponds to one of said plurality of sub units and each sub unit number is represented by a respectively different portion of said signal stream;

a controller for controlling the transfer of the calling information signal stream to said sub units simultaneously;

said a plurality of sub units comprising;

a sub unit radio section for conducting radio communication with the main unit;

a calling management section for managing a plurality of sub unit numbers as a sub unit calling information signal;

a sub unit controller for controlling the sub unit calling information signal managed by said calling management section which is transmitted to said main unit by said sub unit radio section, and for controlling said sub unit radio section so as to conduct radio communication with the main unit if the calling information signal stream transmitted from said main unit and received by said sub unit radio section includes a sub unit number corresponding to said sub unit.

14. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 13, wherein each of said sub units further comprises a sub unit keyboard, wherein said calling management section manages a plurality of sub unit numbers input from said sub unit keyboard to generate the sub unit calling information signal.

15. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 13, wherein said main unit further comprises a keyboard, and said number multiplexer multiplexes each sub unit number input from said keyboard and the plurality of sub unit numbers included in the sub unit calling information signal transmitted by each sub unit, to generate the calling information signal stream, wherein each sub unit number is input from said keyboard and said radio section receives the sub unit calling information signal from said sub unit at the same time.

16. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 13, wherein said number multiplexer multiplexes said plurality of sub unit numbers to generate the calling information signal stream by converting each digit of the plurality of the sub unit numbers to specific bit binary numbers, and forming a bit configuration in which delimiters of specific bit binary numbers are inserted between the sub unit numbers converted to binary numbers.

17. The digital radiotelephone system of claim 13, wherein said controller controls the calling signal stream multiplexed by said number multiplexer which is transmitted by a carrier radiowave emitted from said radio section.