Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Auxiliary data signaling
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-02
2001-05-29
Kuntz, Curtis (Department: 2643)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Auxiliary data signaling
C455S463000, C455S573000, C455S557000, C455S566000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06240297
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a docking station for at least one mobile or cordless telecommunication handset, particularly a phone handset, said docking station comprising a base able to receive the handset.
A known docking station of this kind is a single cordless phone handset loading station for loading the batteries of a single handset.
Now that mobile telephone, and more particularly GSM, has become popular and more and more people carry a mobile telephone handset, it sometimes occurs that the ringing of the mobile telephone handset can be disturbing, for example during a meeting or in a restaurant.
Some restaurants already collect GSM handsets on entry and notify their owner of an incoming call. This solution however requires a person watching continuously the collected handsets and the displacement of a person for notifying, for example by means of a board, a called handset owner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The aim of the invention is to provide a docking station which not only permits docking but also avoids the disturbance created by ringing of a telecommunication handset without the above mentioned drawbacks, this without requiring the intervention of personnel.
This aim is obtained by the fact that the base of the docking station is adapted to receive simultaneously a plurality of mobile telecommunication handsets and comprises therefor a plurality of locations for a handset, the docking station comprising a public display and an interface processor between each location of the base and the display, said interface processor comprising means for detecting an incoming call for a handset docked in the location and for controlling the display in order to notify of this detection.
These means may be such that the display displays information about the detected incoming call in the form of a number allotted to the location of the called handset or/and custom information such as the handset identification number (that is the “called ID number”) or/and the name of the handset owner, and/or even an identification of the caller, e.g. the “caller ID number”.
The docking station can comprise a power supply for handset battery recharging.
In this case the batteries of the handsets can be loaded during docking.
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Alcatel
Kuntz Curtis
Sughrue Mion Zinn Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
Taylor Barry W
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