Patent ID: 8189560
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for use with a first data device, a second data device, and a third data device operable to generate one of directly and indirectly an interrupt signal and to disable one of directly and indirectly the interrupt signal, the apparatus comprising: a switch connectable to said first data device, said second data device, and said third data device, said switch in a first state connecting said first data device and said second data device, said switch in a second state being operable, upon detection of the interrupt signal, to disconnect automatically said first data device to said third data device; wherein said switch is operable to return to the first state from the second state automatically, upon said third data device disabling the interrupt signal; the apparatus further comprising a fourth data device, wherein said first data device comprises point-to-point serial data circuit-terminating equipment, said second data device comprising a radio transceiver, and said third data device operable to communicate with said with said fourth data device over a physical layer, the physical layer comprising one of a satellite communications path and a line-of-sight communications path.