Patent ID: 7082314

Claim:
Intercom apparatus comprising a base station, said apparatus being capable of selectively establishing voice communication connections among a plurality of user stations and said base station being capable of communicating with each said user station on a respective channel, said base station including: (i) a data store containing (a) respective user identification data identifying each of a plurality of users of the apparatus, and (b) respective personality data, for each identified user, including the user identification data of each other user intended to have a voice connection with said identified user; (ii) a user and channel correlator receiving, from each said user station, data correlating with the user identification data of the respective user of the respective user station, and correlating the user identification data of the respective user with the respective channel of the user station of the respective user; and (iii) a crosspoint processor responsive to said user and channel correlator to set up voice communication links amongst said channels to provide voice connections between users in accordance with said personality data.