Cordless telephone arrangement
First Claim
1. A cordless telephone arrangement comprising a base station coupled to a telephone network, and a plurality of mobile stations capable of communicating selectively with other telephones on the network via a two-way radio link with the base station;
- whereina mobile station comprises means for issuing an instruction by radio communication requesting the base station to dial a desired telephone number without the mobile station transmitting the desired telephone number to the base station with the instruction; and
the base station comprises;
means for receiving the instruction for the mobile station, and means responsive to said receiving means receiving the instruction for determining the desired telephone number based upon the instruction and dialing the desired telephone number to establish communication between the respective mobile station and the telephone on the network having the desired telephone number.
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Abstract
A cordless telephone arrangement, such as a DECT Business Cordless Telecommunications (BCT) system, comprises a PBX base station (1) and a plurality of mobile stations in the form of portable handsets (2a, 2b . . . 2n). The handsets themselves include no means for independently dialing a telephone number. Instead of a conventional keypad the handsets each comprise only a single “TALK” key 7. The PBX 1 is adapted to dial on behalf of each handset in response to an instruction received by radio communication therefrom. In one embodiment the instructions are delivered orally to the handset. In this case the PBX includes a voice recognition device 12. A voice synthesizer 11 may also be included for returning spoken messages to the handset. The TALK key 7 is used to indicate that the handset is required to make a call, to terminate a call, or to accept an incoming call. Otherwise instructions and messages are largely conveyed between the mobile station and the base station by spoken word using radio communication.
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1. A cordless telephone arrangement comprising a base station coupled to a telephone network, and a plurality of mobile stations capable of communicating selectively with other telephones on the network via a two-way radio link with the base station;
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a mobile station comprises means for issuing an instruction by radio communication requesting the base station to dial a desired telephone number without the mobile station transmitting the desired telephone number to the base station with the instruction; and
the base station comprises;
means for receiving the instruction for the mobile station, and means responsive to said receiving means receiving the instruction for determining the desired telephone number based upon the instruction and dialing the desired telephone number to establish communication between the respective mobile station and the telephone on the network having the desired telephone number. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A cordless telephone arrangement comprising a base station coupled to a telephone network, and mobile stations capable of communicating selectively with other telephones connected to the network via a radio link of the mobile stations with the base station;
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wherein the base station includes means for receiving a dialing instruction by radio communication from at least one of the mobile stations, means for dialing a telephone number on the telephone network based upon the dialing instruction received from the at least one mobile station, and means for transmitting an operating instruction to the at least one mobile station; and
wherein the at least one mobile station includes means for issuing the dialing instruction by radio communication requesting the base station to dial a telephone number, and means for receiving the operating instruction by radio communication from the base station, wherein the dialing instruction does not contain the desired telephone number and the base station comprises means for determining the desired telephone number based upon the instruction. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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13. A cordless telephone arrangement comprising a base station coupled to a telephone network, and a plurality of mobile stations capable of communicating selectively with other telephones on the network via a two-way radio link of the mobile stations with the base station;
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at least one of the mobile stations comprises means for issuing an instruction by radio communication requesting the base station to dial a desired telephone number without the instruction containing the desired telephone number; and
the base station comprises;
means for receiving the instruction from the mobile station; and
means responsive to said receiving means for dialling the desired telephone number to establish communication between the respective mobile station and the telephone on the network having the desired telephone number, the base station being adapted to simultaneously communicate with individual mobile stations on separate channels. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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