Integrated telephone set with an xDSL-modem

• US 7,113,574 B1
• Filed: 05/22/2000
• Issued: 09/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Peleg, Shimon, Haas, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Stella
• Application Number:
  US10/275,040
• Time in Patent Office: 2,318 Days
• Field of Search: 379/90.01, 379/93.01, 379 9305- 9308, 379/110.01, 379/413, 379/93.28, 375/222, 375/219, 370/493, 370/442, 370/470, 370/524, 370/290, 370/366, 370/222, 307/131, 710/302, 710/62, 710/301, 711/115, 713/300, 713/320, 713/324
• US Class Current: 379/90.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/738 Interface circuits for coupling substations to external telephone lines H04M1/78 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/062 using different frequency bands for speech and other data

Abstract

Integrated telephone with an xDSL-modem (2), comprising a splitter unit (6) for separating telephone signals received via a telephone line (9) in a low-frequency band from data signals received in a high-frequency band via the telephone line (9), a telephone set (3) connected to the splitter unit (6) for the transmission of telephone signals in the low-frequency band; and a high-speed xDSL-modem (2) connected to the splitter unit (6) for the transmission of data signals in the high-frequency band.

Claims

1. Integrated telephone set with an xDSL-modem, comprising:

(a) a splitter unit for separating telephone signals received via a telephone line in a low-frequency band from data signals received in a high-frequency band via the telephone line;

(b) a telephone set connected to the splitter unit for transmission of telephone signals in the low-frequency band;

(c) a high-speed xDSL-modem connected to the splitter unit for transmission of data signals in the high-frequency band;

(d) wherein the high-speed xDSL modem is linked to at least one data communication interface for connecting a data communication device to the xDSL modem;

(e) wherein the xDSL modem is activated when the data communication device is connected to the data communication interface, and wherein the xDSL modem is deactivated when the data communication device is disconnected from the data communication interface;

(f) the activated xDSL modem being powered by the data communication device;

(g) the telephone set being powered via the telephone line by a local PBX exchange unit; and

(h) a detection means for detecting whether a data communication device is connected to the data communication interface.

2. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the transmitted telephone and data signals transmitted via the telephone line are multiplexed by Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD).

3. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the splitter unit comprises filter means for separating the telephone signals from the data signals.

4. The integrated telephone set according to claim 3, wherein the filter means includes a low-pass filter for separating the telephone signals and a high-pass filter for separating the data signals.

5. The integrated telephone set according to claim 4, wherein the cut-off frequencies of the high- and low-pass filters are adjustable.

6. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the telephone line is an unshielded twisted pair telephone wire (UTP).

7. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the data communication interface comprises a communication port.

8. The integrated telephone set according to claim 7, wherein the communication port is an Ethernet port, a USB port or an ATM25 port.

9. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the telephone set has a display which is used to display status information of the telephone set and status information of the xDSL-modem.

10. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the xDSL-modem is an ADSL-modem, an SDSL-modem or a VDSL-modem.

11. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the analog modem can be connected to the telephone set of the integrated telephone set for data transfer.

12. The integrated telephone set according to claim 1, wherein the telephone set has a keyboard which is used to input control data for controlling the status of the telephone set and the status of the xDSL-modem.

13. The integrated telephone set according to claim 12, wherein the keyboard comprises keys to input telephone numbers and keys to input test characters.