Telephony device and telephone communication system incorporating such a telephony device

Patent 6009152 Issued on December 28, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

November 26, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Bourhis, Steven

Application

No. 980129 filed on 11/26/1997

US Classes:

379/93.09Switching between different terminal types (e.g., voice/data switch)

Examiners

Primary: Chiang, Jack

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Halajian; Dicran

International Class

H04M 011/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-12-06 FR

Abstract

The invention relates to a receiver stage in a telephony device which receiver stage permits of receiving and decoding coded signals distinct from the speech signals to route them to a memory area. This solution permits of a simple and automatic information transfer from the called party to the memory of the user's telephony device.