Appeal No. 97-2762
Application No. 08/309,845
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for alternately coupling a land-line, telephonic communication
device (e.g., a telephone) between a land-line link and a
radio link.
Claims 12 and 52 are illustrative of the claimed
invention, and they read as follows:
12. In an apparatus for alternately coupling a land-
line, telephonic communication device between a land-line link
and a radio link, comprising a land-line link having land-line
telephone wiring that connects a land-line, telephonic
communication device to the land-line's central station; a
radio link that connects a land-line, telephonic communication
device to a base station of the radio link; first means for
coupling a land-line, telephonic communication device to said
land-line link; second means for coupling the land-line,
telephonic communication device to a radio link; and switching
means for switching connection of a land-line, telephonic
communication device between the land-line link and the radio
link, the improvement comprising;
said second means for coupling the land-line, telephonic
communication device to a radio link comprising a portion of
said land-line telephone wiring of said land-line link,
whereby a land-line, telephonic communication device is
capable of placing or receiving a telephone call over the
radio link by utilizing a portion of the land-line link, and
alternatively placing or receiving a telephone call over the
land-line link.
52. A method of coupling a land-line, telephonic
communication device to a radio system, by utilizing land-
line, interior-premises, telephone wiring located at a
premises where the land-line telephonic communication device
is to be used, comprising:
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