Wireless prepaid telephone system with extended capability
First Claim
1. A wireless telephone system for use with wireless telephone instruments individually prepaid for limited use, and which transmit an identification signal on activation, said system for enabling telecommunication from calling wireless telephone instruments to access other target telephone terminals through a dial up network, said system comprising:
- a voice generator for providing vocal cues;
a voice detector for translating voice signal representations to dial-up telephone signals;
a memory for storing data on said wireless telephone instruments including prepaid balances for said wireless telephone instruments;
a platform for interfacing said wireless telephone instruments to;
receive said identification signals from said wireless telephone instruments, provide cues from said voice generator to said wireless telephone instruments and receive voice representations from said wireless telephone instruments to provide dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector;
control means for controlling said voice generator, said voice detector, said memory and said platform to interface said wireless telephone instruments through said platform for;
identifying a calling wireless telephone instrument, testing said calling wireless telephone instrument for call approval whereby, the prepaid balance for said calling wireless telephone instrument is tested, cuing a caller at said calling wireless telephone instrument to speak a target telephone terminal number, receiving said dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector to dial up the target telephone terminal for an approved calling wireless telephone instrument through said dial-up network in accordance with said spoken target telephone terminal number and reflecting the charge of dialing up said target telephone terminal in a prepaid balance of said memory.
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Abstract
A telecommunication system incorporates individual station instruments simplified by wireless operation, voice dialing, prepaid accounting and out-call operation, all enabled by cooperative system operation including supporting central equipment. Wireless operation of the central equipment involves a multiple port wireless platform along with other units for interfacing a multitude of mobile station instruments simultaneously for interactive audio communication to, regulate control, monitor and record operations of the instruments, and bridge communication with selected remote terminals through the public switched telephone network. Message capability, emergency abort to an operator station and security features supplement the basic system.
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16 Claims
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1. A wireless telephone system for use with wireless telephone instruments individually prepaid for limited use, and which transmit an identification signal on activation, said system for enabling telecommunication from calling wireless telephone instruments to access other target telephone terminals through a dial up network, said system comprising:
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a voice generator for providing vocal cues;
a voice detector for translating voice signal representations to dial-up telephone signals;
a memory for storing data on said wireless telephone instruments including prepaid balances for said wireless telephone instruments;
a platform for interfacing said wireless telephone instruments to;
receive said identification signals from said wireless telephone instruments, provide cues from said voice generator to said wireless telephone instruments and receive voice representations from said wireless telephone instruments to provide dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector;
control means for controlling said voice generator, said voice detector, said memory and said platform to interface said wireless telephone instruments through said platform for;
identifying a calling wireless telephone instrument, testing said calling wireless telephone instrument for call approval whereby, the prepaid balance for said calling wireless telephone instrument is tested, cuing a caller at said calling wireless telephone instrument to speak a target telephone terminal number, receiving said dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector to dial up the target telephone terminal for an approved calling wireless telephone instrument through said dial-up network in accordance with said spoken target telephone terminal number and reflecting the charge of dialing up said target telephone terminal in a prepaid balance of said memory.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A process for wireless telephonic communication to accomplish an interface between a calling wireless telephone instrument and a central station to establish communication by said calling wireless telephone instrument with remote target telephone terminals through a public switched telephone network, comprising the steps of:
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interfacing said calling wireless telephone instrument to cue spoken words representative of alphabetic data and numerical data;
receiving spoken word signals from said calling wireless telephone instrument representative of alphabetic data and numerical data;
selectively converting said spoken word signals from said calling wireless telephone instrument representative of numerical data to dial-up telephone signals, including spoken word signals indicating a target telephone terminal;
testing said calling wireless telephone instrument for an adequate prepaid balance to cover charges to said remote target telephone terminals, thereby identifying an approved calling wireless telephone instrument; and
bridging an approved calling wireless telephone instrument for communication with a target telephone terminal and monitoring said communication for reflection in said prepaid balance.
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