Patent ID: 8121588
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An emergency dialer base station for controlling an external emergency dialer, the base station comprising: circuitry for setting the emergency dialer base station into a learning mode; circuitry for receiving, while the emergency dialer base station is set to the learning mode, information corresponding to a triggering signal configured to be received by the external emergency dialer when a button on a non-voice-enabled pendant has been pressed, wherein the triggering signal uniquely identifies the non-voice-enabled pendant from other non-voice-enabled pendants; a memory for storing an indication of the triggering signal configured to be received by the external emergency dialer while the emergency dialer base station is set to the learning mode; a receiver for receiving an activation signal from a voice-enabled pendant; a transmitter for transmitting the triggering signal learned while the emergency dialer base station was set to the learning mode to the external emergency dialer in response to receiving the activation signal from the voice-enabled pendant; and circuitry for converting voice signals received from the voice-enabled pendant to signals to be received by a remote monitoring service communicating with the external emergency dialer, wherein the circuitry for converting voice signals received from the voice-enabled pendant to signals to be received by the remote monitoring service communicating with the external emergency dialer further comprises a speakerphone configured for acoustically transmitting the voice signals received from the voice-enabled pendant to the external emergency dialer.