Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1998-09-16
2001-02-13
Le, Thanh Cong (Department: 2684)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S550100, C455S557000, C455S556200, C379S038000, C379S093030
Reexamination Certificate
active
06188917
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates generally to the communication of communication media by way of a radio link, such as the radio link formed between a radio telephone and network infrastructure of a cellular, or other, radio communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a telecommunications assembly, a communication device, and an associated method, by which to communicate communication media with a remote location by way of a radio link. A user is able, with one hand, both to support the telecommunications assembly and to effectuate its operation.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A communication system is operable to communicate information between a transmitting station and a receiving station by way of a communication channel. A radio communication system is a communication system in which the communication channel by which information is communicated between the transmitting and receiving stations is formed upon a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A cellular communication system is exemplary of a multi-user, radio communication system. A cellular communication system is a multi-user system, permitting large numbers of users to communicate telephonically therethrough. With the installation of the network infrastructure of cellular communication systems throughout large geographical areas, together with the affordability of telephonic communication effectuated therethrough, use of cellular communication systems by which to communicate telephonically has achieved wide popularity.
Advancements in digital communication techniques have been utilized to form digital cellular communication systems, the network infrastructure of which also has been installed throughout wide geographical regions. Digital modulation techniques permit efficient utilization of the available electromagnetic spectrum allocated to cellular communication systems. Also, digital modulation techniques facilitate the transmission of digital data which can more directly be modulated, in contrast to conventional analog signals.
Digital data, such as computer data or, more generally, “communication media”, can be transmitted by way of a cellular, or other, radio communication system, thereby to effectuate the transfer of data between remotely-positioned locations.
Digital data generated by any of many various types of communication devices can be provided to radio telephonic apparatus, such as a portable radio telephone, to be modulated thereat and transmitted by way of a radio link to the network infrastructure of the cellular communication system, thereafter to be routed to a receiving station. Analogously, digital data generated at such location can be provided to the network infrastructure of the cellular communication system, transmitted upon a radio link established with the radio telephone, and thereafter provided to the communication device, when coupled to the radio telephone. Some of such communication devices are conventionally coupled to a portable radio telephone by way of, e.g., a cable connector of infrared coupler. When the communication device is formed of a personal computer, for instance, a cable connector is sometimes utilized to connect a data port of the personal computer to a corresponding data port of the radio telephone.
The conventional manner by which to couple a communication device together with a portable radio telephone to permit the communication of communication media between the communication device and a remote location is somewhat unwieldy, requiring, for instance, a support surface, such as a tabletop, upon which to support the separate devices.
As the electronic circuitry forming portions of electrical devices, such as communication devices and portable radio telephones, becomes increasingly miniaturized, the housings in which such electronic circuitry is housed can be reduced in size, thereby to form devices of increasingly-smaller packages.
The smaller-sized communication devices, in some instances, are of dimensions permitting a user thereof easily to carry such devices. And, a conventional, portable radio telephone is of physical dimensions permitting a user also easily to carry a portable radio telephone. However, when the communication device is connected to a portable radio telephone in conventional manner, the user of the communication device is compelled to hold the radio telephone with one hand and the communication device with another. Or, one or both, of the devices must be separately supported, such as on a support surface. Thereby, the advantages of the increased miniaturization of such devices are largely obviated because of the cumbersome manner by which such devices must be held.
A manner by which a user of a communication device coupled to a portable radio telephone could more easily support the communication device together with the radio telephone would advantageously facilitate ease of use of the communication device.
It is in light of this background information related to the communication of communication media that the significant improvements of the present invention have evolved.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention, accordingly, advantageously provides a communication device, and associated method, and a telecommunications assembly including the communication device by which to communicate the communication media with a remote location by way of a radio link.
In one aspect of the present invention, a communication device includes a docking port. A portable radio telephone is insertable into the docking port to be positioned at a docking position. When positioned at the docking position, operations performed upon communication media at the communication device can be provided to the radio telephone for transmission over a radio link to a remote station. And, communication media provided to the radio telephone by way of the radio link can be provided to the communication device.
The portable radio telephone further functions as a hand-hold permitting the user, single handedly, to support both the radio telephone and the communication device. And, through appropriate positioning of actuation keys on a face surface of the communication device, the user also is able to actuate the actuation keys with the same hand by which the portable radio telephone is held.
Convenience of use of the communication device is thereby facilitated. The user need not hold the communication device with one hand and the portable radio telephone with another hand, or support at least one of the communication device and radio telephone at a separate support surface. When engaged theretogether, the user is able to orient the communication device at almost any selected orientation relative to the user, thereby to permit optimization of the user's viewing angle of a user display, when forming a portion of the communication device.
In another aspect of the present invention, a telecommunications assembly is provided which permits communication media to be communicated by way of a radio link to a remote station. In one implementation, the telecommunications assembly includes a portable radio telephone operable in a communication system, and the radio link upon which the communication media is communicated comprises a radio channel defined in the cellular communication system in which the cellular radio telephone is operable.
The portable radio telephone is engaged with the communication device at a docking port which is formed to extend into the communication device from a housing surface portion of the device. When the portable radio telephone is inserted into the inwardly-extending docking port to be positioned at a docking position, the radio telephone is releasably latched into position thereat by a latching mechanism. A data port of the portable radio telephone becomes electrically connected to a corresponding data port positioned at the docking port of the communication device when the radio telephone is positioned at the docking position. Electrical circuitry of the communication device operates upon communication media, including c
Cong Le Thanh
Hayes Thomas B.
Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
Tran Pablo
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