Method and apparatus of facilitating interchanging the use of a mobile station and a permanently wired telephone set

• US 5,826,193 A
• Filed: 08/28/1992
• Issued: 10/20/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Chambert, Georg William Robin, Ghisler, Walter, Israelsson, Per Viktor
• Primary Examiner(s): CUMMING, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US07/936,273
• Time in Patent Office: 2,244 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.35, 379/56, 379/57, 379/58, 379/61, 379/63, 379/210, 379/211, 379/62, 455/103, 455/445, 235/462
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/006 Call diverting means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/58 Arrangements for transferring received calls from one subscriber to another; Arrangements affording interim conversations between either the calling or the called party and a third party substation line holding circuits H04M1/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method of facilitating interchanging the use of a mobile station and a permanently wired telephone set includes providing the number of the permanently wired telephone set as a bar code near the telephone set. A bar code reader is connected to the mobile station for scanning the bar code for ordering of interchanging the mobile station and the permanently wired set without dialing the number on a keyset of the mobile station. A predetermined interchanging key on the keyset is designated and connected for ordering the interchanging. The interchange is initiated by scanning the bar code with the bar code reader and pressing the interchanging key.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating interchanging the use of a mobile station and a permanently wired telephone set, said mobile station being equipped with a keyset and circuits connected thereto for controlling and performing desired functions, said keyset in addition to dialling also permitting ordering of such interchanging in a telephone network system which includes the permanently wired telephone set and which permits interchanging upon request from the mobile station, comprising the steps of:

providing a number of said permanently wired telephone set as a bar code nearby said permanently wired telephone set,

connecting a bar code reader to said mobile station for scanning said bar code for ordering of interchanging the mobile station and said permanently wired set without dialling said number by means of said keyset,

designating and connecting a predetermined interchanging key on said keyset as a means for ordering said interchanging, and

initiating said interchanging by scanning said bar code with said bar code reader and pressing said interchanging key.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

designating and connecting a predetermined temporary transfer key on said keyset as a means for initiating a temporary transfer by interchanging the mobile station to the permanently wired telephone set when the mobile station is on without a call being in progress and for initiating resetting from the temporary transfer.

3. A method in accordance with claim 2, comprising the following steps for temporary transfer:

a) pressing said temporary transfer key while pointing the bar code reader towards the bar code of the permanently wired telephone set,

b) automatically ordering the temporary transfer if a valid bar code is read, and

c) performing the temporary transfer and switching off the mobile station.

4. A method in accordance with claim 2 comprising the following steps for resetting a temporary transfer:

a) switching on the mobile station by pressing the temporary transfer key,

b) determining whether the temporary transfer is active, i.e. if an incoming call would be received in the permanently wired telephone set, and

c) resetting the temporary transfer and transferring, when the incoming call is received, the incoming call to the mobile station.

5. A method in accordance with claim 2, wherein a mobile station ON/OFF key on said keyset is used as said temporary transfer key.

6. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising the steps of designating and connecting a predetermined call pick-up key on said keyset as a means for initiating a call pick-up by interchanging the mobile station and the permanently wired telephone set when the mobile station is on when a call is in progress.

7. A method in accordance with claim 6, wherein a call pick-up is performed without disconnecting the telephone set which was first connected.

8. A method in accordance with claim 6 comprising the following steps for a call pick-up of a call in progress from the mobile station to the permanently wired telephone set:

activating said predetermined call pick-up key while directing the bar code reader towards the bar code of the permanently wired telephone set,

checking that a valid bar code is read and ordering call-pick up in the network in response to a valid bar code, and

executing the call pick-up by lifting a handpiece of the permanently wired telephone set.

9. A method in accordance with claim 6 comprising the following steps for call pick-up of a call in progress from the permanently wired telephone set to the mobile station:

with the mobile station on, actuating the predetermined call pick-up key while directing the bar code reader towards the bar code of the permanently wired telephone set,

checking that a valid bar code is read and ordering call pick-up in the network in response to a valid bar code, and

executing the call pick-up by replacing a handpiece of the permanently wired telephone set.

10. A mobile station comprising a keyset and means connected thereto for controlling and performing desired functions, said keyset in addition to dialing also permitting ordering interchanging to a permanently wired telephone set in a telephone network system, and a bar code reader for facilitating interchanging the mobile station and a permanently wired telephone set in the network, a number of the permanently wired telephone set being provided in the proximity thereof in the form of a bar code,

said bar code reader being connected to the mobile station for scanning of such bar coded number for ordering of interchanging the mobile station and the telephone set without dialing the number by the keyset,

said bar code reader further comprising a function key on said keyset designated and connected for initiating said interchanging.

11. A mobile station in accordance with claim 10, further comprising a predetermined temporary transfer key for initiating a temporary transfer by interchanging of the mobile station and the permanently wired telephone set when the mobile station is on without a call being in progress and for initiating resetting from a temporary transfer.

12. A mobile station in accordance with claim 11, wherein an ON/OFF key of the mobile station keyset is used as said temporary transfer key.

13. A mobile station in accordance with claim 10 comprising a call pick-up key for initiating call pick-up in both directions of a call in progress between the mobile station and the permanently wired telephone set.

14. A mobile station in accordance with claim 10, wherein the bar code reader is disposed in the mobile station and has a scanning eye located in a surface of the mobile station.

15. A mobile station in accordance with claim 10 comprising circuit means for investigating in the mobile station whether a valid bar code is read.