France Telecom

Matra Communication

Philippe Decaesteke

Jacques M Guichard

Jean-Marc Marczak

In order to establish a videophone communication from a calling terminal to a called terminal, a communication is established on a first TBCC channel, then a ringing tone is emitted automatically, from the called terminal, to the calling terminal on the first channel and a call is emitted to the telephone set on the second channel B; in response to the unhooking of the telephone handset the two channels are automatically linked from the called terminal; and, in response to a code from the telephone set, the emission is caused of a waiting tone to the calling terminal and a ringing to the called videophone terminal; in the event of acceptance on the part of the subscriber of the called videophone terminal, the establishment of communication is automatically continued in response to the hooking of the set.

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Bois D'Arcy, France

Philippe Decaesteke