Abstract:
A method and apparatus for a computer-telephone interface system by which a general purpose personal computer is enabled to perform telephone functions such as dialing, answering ringing lines, and placing lines on hold without the need for a separate telephone instrument. The interface system is responsive to digital signals received from a microprocessor in the computer to implement the signalling functions utilized in a standard switched telephone network. The interface system performs dialing sequences entered either from the keyboard of the computer, a location in the computer memory, a location on a display screen associated with the computer or a location specified by a cursor used in association with the keyboard. Operation of the interface system does not interfere with the concurrent operation by the computer of an applications program.
Abstract:
A key-in sound-generating circuit comprises a keyboard including dial number keys and function keys, a DTMF signal generator coupled, at the output terminal, with a telephone network, a sound generator for converting, into a sound, the output signal from the DTMF signal generator, and a data processor circuit for executing the key data processing according to the keying operation performed using the keyboard, and supplying a control signal to the DTMF signal generator, the data processor being responsive to the operation of the dial number key, to supply a DTMF signal to the keyboard and the sound generator, and responsive to the operation of the function key, to supply a single-frequency signal to the keyboard and the sound generator.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for decoding audiofrequency information sent through rotary dialing from a calling phone set or through any other phone dialing generating means, as they are currently found in the form of automatic rotary dialers, during the conversation period established between a calling phone set and the apparatus of the present invention located at the called end.At the same time in which the closure of the d.c. current or conversation circuit takes place, a decoder apparatus is activated at the called party end for decoding the audiofrequency information sent through rotary dialing by the calling party and transforming it into logic data or single pulses for purposes of commanding, ordering or informing.
Abstract:
A time slot-controlling circuit (14, 14'), applicable for use with diverse types of keyboard-operated utilization devices or apparatus (18, 97, 98), such as in a pushbutton telephone (90), allows all (or pre-selected) keyboard-mounted key switches (24a-n, 24a'-h') to acquire a selected one of at least two different time slot-dependent operating states. This advantageously allows each key to initiate or control more than one work (or logic) function performed by an associated keyboard-operated utilization device or apparatus (18, 97, 98), as typically employed in a composite system or apparatus (10, 90). Such a two-state mode of operation is accomplished by each of two illustrative time slot-controlling circuit embodiments (14, 14') comprising a common time slot signal generator (21, 21'), which is responsively connected to a plurality of control signal generating channel selector circuits (22a-n, 22a'-h'). The signal generator (21, 21') includes an astable multivibrator (34, 34') coupled to a time slot controlling flip-flop (34). Each of the channel selector circuits (22a-n, 22a'-h') comprises a pair of gate-controlled flip-flops (64, 68), each of which is adapted to produce a key-initiated output control signal on only one of two output channels (e.g., A, or A.sub.2 to N.sub.1 or N.sub.2) thereof at any given time. On which channel such a control signal is produced is dependent on whether the associated key (24a-n) has been actuated during the first (T.sub.1) or second (T.sub.2) time slot switching state period established therefor. Either a separate time slot signal responsive visual indicator, such as an LED (53) mounted in each key, when of the pushbutton type, or a single LED common to all of keys, provides an indication (e.g., LED ON or OFF) of which time slot operable state each switch is in at any given time.
Abstract:
A machine and telephone controller for complex machine functions which is operated by simply looking at it and winking the eye in a preset code. Photocell and electronic logic circuitry stop a sequencing digital display at the desired numerals and activates the machine or telephone for the displayed number which may indicate either a function of a machine or a telephone number to be dialed.
Abstract:
A mobile phone device includes: a display device that switches a display state between first and second display states; a communication unit that executes a call between a first user and a second user who makes a call using another phone device; an image generation unit that generates a first image indicating first information including a phone number of the another phone device based on identification information and generates a second image indicating second information related to the second user based on the identification information; a detection unit that detects a switching operation by the first user to switch the display state of the display device from the first display state to the second display state; and, a display control unit that changes the display state to the second display state and causes the display device to display the second image in a case where the switching operation is detected.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, system includes a receiver and electronic circuitry. The electronic circuitry configured to determine whether the first user is present near a first apparatus of apparatuses, determine whether the first user is present near a second apparatus of the apparatuses, establish a first communication route with the first apparatus for the communication with the first user in response to the request, if it is determined that the first user is present near the first apparatus, and establish a second communication route with the second apparatus for the communication with the first user in response to the request, if it is determined that the first user is present near the second apparatus.
Abstract:
A system for initiating phone calls includes a database including records related to one or more second users, each of the second users being associated with an identifier and a phone number, a phone including a controller in communication with the database, and a memory in communication with the controller. The memory including program instructions executable by the controller that, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to provide a user interface that receives a phone call request from a first user, wherein the phone call request includes the identifier associated with a one of the second users and does not include the phone number associated with the one of the second users, and, in response to receiving the phone call request, initiating the phone call over a telephone network from the phone to the phone number associated with the one of the second users.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the field of computer telephony integration, displaying and producing computer based documents seamlessly to users that relate to their telephone calls. The best mode is considered to be the use of the invention with social media, such as Facebook, where the mobile station (30) searches for the social media page of the caller based on the Caller ID and displays it to the recipient of the call on the mobile station screen, possibly with other Internet search results. The methods and arrangements allow the user to obtain the newest public information about the person who calls him or he decides to call, or any documents that might be intermittent between the people. In other words the Desktop or screen automatically arranges itself to a state in which it is easiest to work during the call, using searches made based on call parameters, such as caller ID.
Abstract:
A method of executing a function through a touch input device. The method includes displaying a plurality of soft keys on a screen of the touch input device, and executing a function when one of the soft keys is touched and slid on the screen of the touch input device and an input instruction is entered to execute the assigned function.