Telephonic communications – Having light wave or ultrasonic link for speech or paging... – Including fiber optic link within telephone network
Patent
1991-05-08
1993-12-21
Ng, Jin F.
Telephonic communications
Having light wave or ultrasonic link for speech or paging...
Including fiber optic link within telephone network
379144, 379145, 379147, 379150, 379155, 194344, 194346, H04M 1100, H04M 1700
Patent
active
052727475
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mobile telephone system and more particularly relates to a phone system including means for regulating access to said telephone system utilising a coin acceptor module means to enable interphasing of accessories onto the phone set and means to enable removal of coinage from the set.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are in existence many types of access control phone systems commonly termed pay phones. These are generally in use as public phones and utilise a direct electric line for signal transfer when in operation. Other known access control devices in direct line phones comprise key lock systems which block the signal transfer when in the locked position. The direct line phone systems have been in use for a considerable time with the major most recent advance and departure from these conventional phones being the radio phone.
The introduction of the radio phone enables the installation of mobile phones in vehicles and the production of household mobile phones which are transportable and used within a given distance range. Whilst these phones have been applied for business, domestic and vehicle use, it is less common for a mobile phone system which has an access control system to be utilised in vehicles and adapted thereto to enable public use of such phones.
There are nevertheless, in existence, mobile cellular phones having a standard subscriber station which comprises a customer administrative input and display apparatus, a data modem, a local administrative processor for controlling the station either for or in support of credit card billing and for conducting two way high speed data communication with the central administrative processor and which can be reached by a direct dial telephone call. One such system is disclosed in Australian Patent Application No. 79214/89 by ARLENE J. HARRIS.
That system also provides, for the generation of control signals and billing data, defining the individual customer accounts and also a register for storing billing data. Australian Patent 577732 also discloses a mobile radio communication system which comprises a plurality of fixed stations respectively connected to a plurality of subscriber lines extending from a telephone exchange and a plurality of mobile stations linked with the fixed stations through radio channels. Each fixed station has means for transmitting rate charging information with rate collecting means being responsive to the rate charging information to vary its content.
Although each of the systems referred to have means for enabling access by a caller to the system and/or means for recording billing data, none are provided with a coin acceptance facility as a means of access control nor with a facility for enabling interphasing of peripherals such as fax machines and computers to the phone set.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It has not hitherto previously been known to provide a self contained cellular mobile radio phone of the type comprising a standard phone set, a radio transceiver and a handset and in addition to standard features also comprising in combination credit card reading means, a coin acceptance and rejection mechanism, an accessory interphase and a disposable cash box for enabling the ready recovery of coin from the cash box and without compromise to the security of the phone system.
It is envisaged that one application of the access control phone system would be in public vehicles such as taxis, buses, hire cars and the like whereby a passenger in such a vehicle may make a phone call whilst in transit by insertion of the requisite fee into a coin acceptor which forms one element of the overall system.
The system of the present invention comprises in broad terms an existing mobile radio phone having connected thereto an electronic coin acceptor module and a micro-controller/processor for controlling the activities of the coin acceptor and performing the general functions of tallying, timing of calls relative to an amount paid and allowing r
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Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp. Limited
Bost Dwayne D.
Litman Richard C.
Ng Jin F.
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