Patent ID: 6754481
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: H04B,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless telephone system for use with wireless telephone instruments individually prepaid for limited use, and which transmit an identification signal on activation, said system for enabling telecommunication from calling wireless telephone instruments to access other target telephone terminals through a dial up network, said system comprising:a voice generator for providing vocal cues; a voice detector for translating voice signal representations to dial-up telephone signals; a memory for storing data on said wireless telephone instruments including prepaid balances for said wireless telephone instruments; a platform for interfacing said wireless telephone instruments to: receive said identification signals from said wireless telephone instruments, provide cues from said voice generator to said wireless telephone instruments and receive voice representations from said wireless telephone instruments to provide dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector; control means for controlling said voice generator, said voice detector, said memory and said platform to interface said wireless telephone instruments through said platform for: identifying a calling wireless telephone instrument, testing said calling wireless telephone instrument for call approval whereby, the prepaid balance for said calling wireless telephone instrument is tested, cuing a caller at said calling wireless telephone instrument to speak a target telephone terminal number, receiving said dial-up telephone signals from said voice detector to dial up the target telephone terminal for an approved calling wireless telephone instrument through said dial-up network in accordance with said spoken target telephone terminal number and reflecting the charge of dialing up said target telephone terminal in a prepaid balance of said memory.