CA2366271A1

CA2366271A1 - Hybrid wireless telephone and wireless telephone station

Info

Publication number: CA2366271A1
Application number: CA002366271A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Cam S. Fook Chain Lim
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2001-12-28
Filing date: 2001-12-28
Publication date: 2003-06-28

Abstract

The landline phone and wireless phone are two common telecommunication devices that have become indispensable in our daily life. Each device has its "good points". Users often have to decide which service to use. Many users ended up using and paying for both services. In this invention, a hybrid wireless telephone and its accompanying base station bring about the "marriage" of the household landline service devices to the wireless service. By piggybacking the household devices such as the plain old telephone to the hybrid wireless telephone that acts as the trans-receiver, the consumer would feel like having the use of the landline service without having to pay for it. When detached from the base station, the hybrid wireless telephone is just another cell phone. The bottom line is that the consumer can seemingly enjoy both the landline and wireless services and pay for just the wireless service.

Description

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CAap.d to The rise in popularity of the wireless phone is rendering obsolete the familiar telephone sets and similar hardware. It is a waste to cease using all those devices, but what can be done to salvage them?
The wireless phone offers the freedom that the landline phone lacks but its use is more restricted compared to the landline phone. What can be done to expand the use of the wireless phone to include those offered by the landline phone? What can be done to expand the use of the landline phone to include the freedom offered by the wireless phone?
This idea offers solutions to the above questions.
The Idea The Household Communication System (HCS) combines the wireless phone and the household telecommunication components, including the telephone to create the Virtual Landline Phone (VLP) for the household user.
The VLP allows the continued use of the telephone(s), answering machine, fax machine, modem, cordless phones) and the ikes in the household as though it has the landline service.
How It Works The Household Communication System has three components:
1. The Hybrid Wireless Telephone (HWT);

2. The Wireless Telephone Station (WTS); and, 3. The household telephone wiring and the familiar telephones, answering machine, fax machines and the likes.
It is important to note that the HCS requires wireless service only; it does not need the landline service.
The HWT, on its own, looks, feels and works just like any wireless phone. When docked in the WTS, together, they function like a virtual landline service to devices such as the familiar telephones. The WTS is also a charger for the HWT.
Together, the HWT and the WTS work in the following fashion:
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y 1. The HWT continues to fun ~'~i ~~ when it comes to communication with the outside world. However, the dialling, the talking, the answering of incoming call, the sending of faxes etc., are done using the telephone, the answering machine, the fax machine and the likes that are connected either directly to the WTS, or indirectly through the household telephone wiring. In other words, the HWT is the transmitter and receiver, subject to the rules and regulation of the wireless service, for the HCS.
2. The WTS emulates the landline service and interacts with the telephone and other household devices - just like the actual landline service would. Furthermore, the WTS interfaces with the HWT to form a VLP system. In other words, the WTS
coordinates and relays communications between the HWT and the telephone and other devices, for the purpose of communicating with the outside world.
Conclusion For the price of one wireless service, the household user has the use of both he wireless phone and the landline phone.
The telecommunication sector, as a result of the exponential demand for new telephone numbers, requires the creation, introduction, and expansion of new area codes, and in the future, a new dialling system. As HCS reduces the need for both the wireless service and landline service, therefore, it may provide some relieve to the telecommunication sector.
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Claims

Claims The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
A cell phone that has a port at the base for docking to the base station.
A base station that has a receptacle to which the cell phone as defined in claim 1 can dock.
A base station as defined in claim 2 functions as a charger for the cell phone as defined in claim 1.
A base station as defined in. claim ? and claim 3 has a power cord for getting power input from the household electric socket.
A base station as defined in claim 2, claim 3 and claim 4 has phone jack(s) into which the household landline service devices such as the plain old telephone can plug.
A base station as defined in claim 5 emulates the landline services and therefore allows the household landline devices such as the plain old telephone to work just as it is connected to the landline service.
A base station as defined in claim 5 and claim 6 supplies sufficient power (current) to the household landline service devices to enable them function just as though they are connected to the landline service.
A base station as defined in claim 5, claim 6 and claim 7 functions as the interface between the cell phone as defined in claim 1 and connected household landline service devices.
A cell phone as defined in claim 1, when docked to the base station as defined in claim 2, claim 3, claim 4, claim 5, claim 6, claim 7 and claim 8, functions as the trans-receiver for the connected household landline service devices.
A cell phone as defined in claim 1 and claim 9, when not docked to the base station as defined in claim 2, claim 3, claim 4, claim 5, claim 6, claim 7 and claim 8, functions just like a cell phone.