Cellular cordless telephone

• US 5,999,823 A
• Filed: 05/30/1997
• Issued: 12/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Hirotaka, Yoneyama, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gantt, Alan
• Application Number:
  US08/865,618
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: 455/552, 455/553, 455/502, 455/515, 455/560
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A cellular cordless telephone set includes an antenna being common to cellular telephone and cordless telephone, and a radio transceiver connected to the antenna and being common to cellular telephone and cordless telephone. The radio transceiver is changeable between a cellular telephone mode of operation and a cordless telephone mode of operation. The radio transceiver receives an incoming cellular telephone radio signal from the antenna and feeds a transmission cellular telephone radio signal to the antenna during the cellular telephone mode of operation. The radio transceiver receives an incoming cordless telephone radio signal from the antenna and feeds a transmission cordless telephone radio signal to the antenna during the cordless telephone mode of operation. The incoming cellular telephone radio signal and the transmission cellular telephone radio signal are in a first predetermined frequency band. The incoming cordless telephone radio signal and the transmission cordless telephone radio signal are in a second predetermined frequency band adjacent to the first predetermined frequency band.

Claims

1. A cellular cordless telephone set comprising:

a radio transceiver being common to cellular telephone and cordless telephone and being movable into and out of a stand-by state;

first means for making the radio transceiver ready to receive either a cellular telephone radio signal or a cordless telephone radio signal when the radio transceiver is in the stand-by state; and

second means for, when the radio transceiver is in the stand-by state, changing the radio transceiver between a cellular control message reception mode of operation and a cordless control message reception mode of operation, wherein the radio transceiver receives a cellular control message from a cellular base station during the cellular control message reception mode of operation, and the radio transceiver receives a cordless control message from a cordless fixed set during the cordless control message reception mode of operation;

wherein the second means comprises means for deciding whether or not plural words in the received cellular control message are equal to each other; and

means for changing the radio transceiver from the cellular control message reception mode of operation to the cordless control message reception mode of operation when the plural words in the received cellular control message are equal to each other.

2. A cellular cordless telephone set as recited in claim 1, wherein the cellular telephone radio signal is of an AMPS cellular system, and the cordless telephone radio signal is in an ISM frequency band.