Patent ID: 6944293
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: H01R,H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for controlling, from a single location, access to a telephone line by all phones attached to the telephone line, comprising: a telephone signal line shunt for a telephone line, the telephone signal line shunt having means to electrically connect at a first end to a first telephone signal line, and means to electrically connect at a second end to a second telephone signal line such that when the telephone signal line shunt is electrically connected to the first and second telephone signal lines, the first and second telephone signal lines are shorted together, and all outlets attached to the telephone line are inhibited from receiving incoming calls and initiating outgoing calls; whereby access to a telephone line for incoming and outgoing calls, by any handset attached to that telephone line can be inhibited by connecting the telephone signal line shunt to the telephone signal lines and uninhibited by disconnecting the telephone line shunt from the telephone signal lines.