DE4344247C2 - Telephone set - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a telephone set, in particular mobile device with a button and display panel and with transmission / reception and control devices.

In telephone systems is off for the connection establishment country calls of the respective participant number, a prefix for an international call and a corresponding country code preceded. In the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communica tion), for example, a service is provided such that the user without knowing the area code for a foreign country talk (in Germany area code 00, in other countries it is otherwise) can initiate an international call. This can the "+" character must be used consistently by the user. So applies to GSM for a call from any country Great Britain as prefix "+44". Knowledge of the interna national country code of the destination country is nevertheless required. With the increasing international communication tion, it is therefore necessary that many users use it for them know the relevant country code by heart or ent need to have speaking records ready.

The invention has for its object a simple To provide a solution to this problem.

This task is the beginning of a telephone set described type solved by the features of claim 1.  

Advantageous refinements and developments of the Erfin subject matter are specified in the subclaim.

The invention is based on two embodiments examples explained in more detail.

A first embodiment is based on the fact that it is internal national, generally applicable country codes, e.g. B. D for Germany, GB for Great Britain there. These are the furthest well known or easy to remember. The user gives for a desired international call on the display: "+", the relevant country identification in letters and the relevant subscriber number, e.g. B. "+ GB 1234567890". This will automatically, starting from everyone Dear country, in the UK the connection 1234567890 selected. The phone recognizes GB as the country code for large britain and replaces the letters GB with the numbers 44th

In a second embodiment, the user MMI service function (MMI = Man Machine Interface) called, giving him a list of all or a selection of certain countries names there. By selecting a country name, the corresponding preceded by a valid sequence of digits for this country, so z. B. +44 for Great Britain. The user expanded then only the subscriber line itself according to the above Example with 1234567890. So there is also one here Linking the country code consisting of letters and the associated numerical sequence of the country code of the art that with the help of the table stored in memory with the Country IDs prepend the digits for the country identifier is generated automatically.

The configurations according to the invention make it possible for everyone Phone users, a known part in each country to call the subscriber line without the required Lan to know the recognition.

Claims (2)

1. Telephony device, in particular a mobile device with a keypad and display as well as with transmitting / receiving and control devices, characterized by tables stored in a memory with country codes consisting of letters of destination countries and associated numerical sequences of the country code, with the help of which the control devices When selecting the country identifier of a target country, the corresponding sequence of digits for the country identifier of the target country is automatically generated and preceded by a subscriber number. 2. Telephone device according to claim 1, characterized, that the digits of the country code about the tax facility with a list of Country names are linked and when choosing a country named the corresponding sequence of digits for the country code of the target country and the participant number is prefixed.