Patent ID: 6259931
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A communications device for use in a communications network, said communications device comprising:a control system configured to selectively transmit signaling to the communications network in a first mode and a second mode, after a call has been set up between the device and the communications network the control system being configured in the first mode to collect a plurality of user signals as they are input into the communications device and to send the collected plurality of user signals as a series of dual-tone, multi-frequency signals in response to a user command, the control system being configured in the second mode to send each of a plurality of user signals as a dual-tone, multi-frequency signal as each of the plurality of user signals is input into the communications device; anda user interface configured to receive a user command to switch the control system between the first and second modes.