Patent ID: 7409052

Claim:
In a method enabling operation of intercom service in a multi-apartment residential facility having in-place therein either a three-wire, four-wire or a five-wire communication system, in which currently said provided intercom service uses intercom-compatible selected three-wire, four-wire or five-wire circuitry, an improved method substituting for that currently used comprising the steps of: A. manufacturing a sole circuit board article of manufacture having: 1. plural intercom-compatible circuits embodied thereon for at least three-wire, four-wire and five-wire intercom service; and 2. a first switch and a second switch; a. said first switch having a first circuitry-selecting contact and a second circuitry-selecting contact; b. said second switch having a third circuitry-selecting contact and a fourth circuitry selecting contact; B. traveling to a residential facility initially with an unknown but in-place intercom wiring thereat; C. identifying which of said three-wire, four-wire or five-wire intercom wiring is in-place at said residential facility; D. installing said sole circuit board article of manufacture at said residential facility; E. preparing for use with said identified intercom wiring by switching said first and second switches in a permutation of contact-established conditions consisting of a first switch first contact with a second switch third contact, a first switch first contact with a second switch fourth contact, and a first switch second contact with a second switch third contact; and F. correlating with said in-place intercom wiring one of said permutations of contact-established conditions effective to provide intercom service; whereby inventory of enabling intercom circuitry is confined to said sole circuit board article of manufacture.