Electronic exchange system for portable stations

• US 5,978,667 A
• Filed: 09/19/1995
• Issued: 11/02/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hirokazu, Nakano, Motohiro, Ito, Emi, Shirakawa, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Wellington
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US08/530,488
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/59, 379/57, 379/67, 379/61, 455/33.1, 455/54.1, 455/403, 455/412, 455/413, 455/554, 455/555, 455/550, 455/560, 340/825.5, 340/825.12
• US Class Current: 455/403
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/16 WPBX [Wireless Private Branch Exchange]

Abstract

An electronic exchange system comprises an electronic exchange system for private branch exchanging, multifunctional telephone sets operating as wired extension terminals, public network main lines of a public telecommunication network that are cores for connecting the central telephone electronic exchange system and said electronic exchange system, leased or private lines, cell stations, a control terminal and portable stations of radio slave units for the cell stations. If an incoming call is not forwarded to the called portable station because the portable station does not respond, the incoming call is stored in a predetermined memory arranged with the electronic exchange system, which connects the portable station and the calling terminal once the portable station restores it communicable state.

Claims

1. An electronic exchange system adapted to be connected to portable stations via a radio channel, the system comprising:

means for transmitting an incoming call signal to a called portable station in response to a call request to the called portable station;

means for detecting that a called portable station is unusable if the called portable station does not respond to the incoming call signal within a given waiting time;

means for storing the number of times when said detecting means detects that said called portable station is unusable;

control means for executing a predetermined process when said detecting means detects that the called portable station is unusable; and

means for changing a time period of said given waiting time for each of said portable stations based on the number of times stored in said storing means.

2. An electronic exchange system according to claim 1, wherein said electronic exchange system is a private electronic exchange system connected to at least an office line of a public telecommunication network.

3. An electronic exchange system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined process executed by said control means is a transfer of a call to a predetermined substitution terminal of the called portable station.

4. An electronic exchange system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined process executed by said control means is a disconnection of a call.

5. An electronic exchange system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined process executed by said control means is a transfer of a call to a talkie.

6. A method of controlling an electronic exchange system having a plurality of portable stations and a memory section comprising the steps of:

a) determining a call to be unsuccessful if the system receives a call to any of the plurality of portable stations and transmits a call signal to the portable station but does not receive an answer within a predetermined period of waiting time;

b) storing the number of times of incoming call no answer situations of the portable station according to the result of the determination process in the step a);

c) carrying out a control process for the calling terminal depending on the result of the determination process in the step a); and

d) altering the predetermined period of waiting time as a function of the number of times of incoming call no answer situations stored in the memory section for each of the portable stations.