Patent ID: 7826805
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A base station, comprising: a wireless part including a wireless transmitter and wireless receiver; a transmitter/receiver part including a receiver circuit for processing a wireless reception signal received by the wireless receiver and a transmitter circuit for processing a wireless transmission signal transmitted by the wireless transmitter; and a control part selectively connecting the wireless transmitter to the transmitter circuit and selectively connecting the wireless receiver to the receiver circuit according to a switched stand-by mode and communication mode, the control part further including a tone generator configured to generate and output an activation tone on the wireless transmission signal when the control part is switched from the stand-by mode to the communication mode, the activation tone automatically causing a handset receiving the transmission signal to switch from a reception mode where a handset receiver circuit is coupled to a handset wireless reception part and a handset transmitter is disconnected from a powered off wireless transmission part to a reception and transmission mode where the handset receiver circuit is coupled to the handset wireless reception part and the handset transmitter is connected to a powered on wireless transmission part.