Arrangement for operating a mobile terminal in a wireless switching system based on different communication standards

• US 6,018,672 A
• Filed: 05/02/1997
• Issued: 01/25/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel Alsthom Compagnie Generale d'Electricite (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Werbus, Volker
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Wellington
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOLDETATIOS, YEMANE
• Application Number:
  US08/850,241
• Time in Patent Office: 998 Days
• Field of Search: 455/552, 455/553, 455/575, 455/349, 455/462, 455/74, 455/74.1, 455/557
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/08 home cordless telephone systems using the DECT standard
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

To be able to utilize the advantages of a cordless system based on the DECT standard as well as the advantages of a cellular mobile radio system based on the GSM standard, dual-mode units are known which switch automatically to the lower cost standard. The expense of such units and of the necessary additional circuits in the network infrastructure is avoided when the mobile unit and a mobile unit adapter are equipped with an infrared interface, whereby all the necessary information for the man-machine communication are transmitted independently of the standards. In this way it is possible to access the GSM mobile radio network without engaging the network infrastructure, for example with a DECT mobile unit via a GSM mobile unit adapter. The infrared interface circuit, which essentially comprises an infrared transceiver (1.1, 2.1), a codec (1.3, 2.3) and a digital signal processor (1.2, 2.2), transmits the speech or potentially data as well, the content of the display read-out and the information via respectively activated keys.

Claims

1. An arrangement for operating a mobile unit in a wireless switching system, the mobile unit and the wireless switching system based on different communication standards, characterized in that the mobile unit and a mobile-unit adapter which has access to the wireless switching system each include an interface circuit via which standard-independent information is exchanged, so that the mobile unit, which is based on a given communication standard, is made usable on a different communication standard, that the mobile unit is based on the DECT standard, and that the mobile-unit adapter belongs to a wireless switching system based on the GSM standard.

2. An arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the information exchange between the interface circuit takes place via an infrared link.

3. An arrangement for operating a mobile unit in a wireless switching system, the mobile unit and the wireless switching system based on different communication standards, characterized in that the mobile unit and the mobile unit adapter which has access to the wireless switching system each include an interface circuit via which standard-independent information is exchanged, so that the mobile unit, which is based on a given communication standard, it made usable in a wireless switching system which is based on a different communication standard, that the mobile unit is based on the GSM standard, and that the mobile-unit adapter belongs to a wireless switching system based on the DECT standard.

4. An arrangement as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the information exchange between the interface circuit takes place via an infrared link.

5. An arrangement for operating a mobile unit in a wireless switching system, the mobile unit and the wireless switching system based on different communication standards, characterized in that the mobile unit and a mobile-unit adapter which has access to the wireless switching system each include an interface circuit via which standard-independent information is exchanged, so that the mobile unit, which is based on a given communication standard, is made usable in a wireless switching system which is based on a different communication standard, that the interface circuit comprises an infrared transceiver (1.1, 2.1) preceded by a codec (1.3, 2.3) and a digital signal processor (1.2, 2.2).

6. An arrangement as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that speech or data is transmitted via the codec (1.3, 2.3) bidirectionally and independently of wireless communication standards, and that the exchange of information and instructions generated by the keyboard of the mobile unit takes place via the digital signal processor (1.2, 2.2) and the infrared transceiver (1.1, 2.1) independently of wireless communication standards.