Patent ID: 7013008
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. In a telephone network interface wherein internal telephone lines are interconnected to external telephone lines along at least one connection path and wherein each connection path contains a patch cord terminated with a first male connector that removably engages a first female connector, a method of electrically interconnecting unterminated alarm system wires to the connection path so that an automated alarm system can utilize the external telephone wires when the automated alarm system is activated, said method comprising the steps of: providing a connector cable assembly, wherein said connector cable assembly has three terminations that include a male modular connector, a female connector port and a wire receptacle connector, wherein said male modular connector is sized to fit within said first female connector, said female connector port is sized to receive said first male connector and said wire receptacle receives and engages said unterminated alarm system wires, and wherein said male modular connector and said female connector port are both electrically interconnected to each other and to said wire receptacle connector by cable wires; disconnecting said first male connector of said patch cord from said first female connector in the telephone network interface; connecting said male modular connector on said connector cable assembly to said first female connector in the telephone network interface; connecting said first male connector on said patch cord to said female connector port on said connector cable assembly, therein connecting said connector cable assembly between said patch cord and said first female connector in the telephone network interface; and connecting said unterminated alarm system wires to said wire receptacle connector on said connector cable assembly, therein electrically interconnecting said alarm system wires to said patch cord.