Personal handy phone system

• US 5,818,918 A
• Filed: 05/31/1996
• Issued: 10/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fujii, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUC MINH
• Application Number:
  US08/656,526
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 455/561-562, 455/462, 455/554-555, 455/426, 455/445, 455/450, 455/452, 455/453, 455/461, 455/403, 455/422, 455/550, 379/167, 379/10, 379/11
• US Class Current: 379/167.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

In a personal handy phone system, a private PHS base station is communicable with both a private PHS terminal and a public PHS terminal. The private PHS base station intermittently transmits and receives a first control signal having a first frequency in a predetermined cycle and at a predetermined interval to communicate with the private PHS terminal. The private PHS base station intermittently transmits and receives a second control signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency in the predetermined cycle and at the predetermined interval to communicate with the public PHS terminal when the first control signal is neither transmitted nor received.

Claims

1. A personal handy phone system comprising a private branch exchange network including a private branch exchange connected to a public PHS network and a private PHS base station connected to said private branch exchange, wherein said private PHS base station comprises:

first transmit/receive means for intermittently transmitting and receiving a first control signal having a first frequency in a predetermined cycle and at a predetermined interval; and

second transmit/receive means for intermittently transmitting and receiving a second control signal having a second frequency different from said first frequency in said predetermined cycle and at said predetermined interval when said first control signal is neither transmitted nor received.

2. A personal handy phone system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said private PHS base station further comprises:

judging means for judging whether a connection request in each of said first and said second control signals received by said private PHS base station is directed to said private branch exchange or said public PHS network; and

informing means for informing the result of judgment to said private branch exchange.

3. A method of controlling a personal handy phone system comprising a private branch exchange network including a private branch exchange connected to a public PHS network and a private PHS base station connected to said private branch exchange, said method comprising the step of making said private PHS base station intermittently transmit and receive a first control signal having a first frequency in a predetermined cycle and at a predetermined interval, and the step of making said private PHS base station intermittently transmit and receive a second control signal having a second frequency different from said first frequency in said predetermined cycle and at said predetermined interval when said first control signal is neither transmitted nor received.

4. A method of controlling a personal handy phone system as claimed in claim 3, said method further comprising the steps of:

making said private PHS base station judge whether a connection request in each of said first and said second control signals received by said private PHS base station is directed to said private branch exchange or said public PHS network; and

informing the result of judgment to said private branch exchange.