Patent ID: 6253089
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
System for establishing a telephone connection to an arbitrary portable telephone among a group of telephones upon the occurence of an incoming call, said system comprising:at least one base station communicating with a plurality of portable telephones including said group of telephones, and wherein each of the telephones in said group has a common address,means, responsive to an incoming call, for causing said at least one base station to output a trigger signal to said group of telephones, said trigger signal comprising an address, or an ID for the address, which addresses the common address of said group of telephones to produce collective ringing,means for causing said at least one base station to also output to said group of telephones an information signal, which comprises the same address, or ID for the address, as comprised by the trigger signal and information about the incoming call to provide the addressed telephones with said information about the call,means at each of the collectively ringing telephones, for establishing a communication link from a portable telephone to the base station when the portable telephone is activated as a response to the ringing and deactivating the ringing at the other collectively ringing telephones.