Patent ID: 6470187
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A system for completing a cordless phone call through a cordless subscriber's home base station via a non-home base station including at least one cordless telephone uniquely addressed to a home base station comprising:(a) at least one non-home base station; (b) the home base station having telephone line connection to a telephone network by direct connection and a unique address; (c) the cordless telephone having means for analog signal input, converting analog signal input to digital mode signals, and wirelessly transmitting those digital mode signals with said unique address to a non-home base station when the cordless telephone is out of range of its home base station; (d) each non-home base station having means for routing digital mode signals from a cordless telephone uniquely addressed to a home base station, wherein said means for routing comprises means for wirelessly receiving said digital mode signals, means for correlating the transmitted unique address to the home base station, and a means for: (i) wirelessly routing said digital mode signals to said home base station based on said unique address if a given non-home base station receiving said digital mode signals is within range of said home base station, and, (ii) if said given non-home base station is not within range of said home base station, wirelessly routing said digital mode signals to at least one additional non-home base station, thereby eventually routing the digital mode signals to said home base station based on said unique address; and (e) said home base station having means for wirelessly receiving the routed digital mode signals, means for identifying the unique address of the cordless phone, and a means for completing said call through the direct line connection by using the digital mode signals received from said non-home base station.