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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1980
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1979
Edmund T Burke, West Long Branch, NJ (US);
David F Jones, Middletown, NJ (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A telephone signaling interface (I1) enables compatible communications between a modified telephone station set (S1) and a key telephone system (KTS1). Separate alternating voltage control signals from the key telephone system (KTS1) are amplitude and polarity modulated and combined by the interface (I1) to provide ringing, switchhook supervision and visual signaling to station set (S1) over a single signaling wire pair (C1). Current flow on the signaling pair (C1) in one direction provides visual signaling while distinguishable amounts of current flow in the opposite direction provide the supervision and ringing signals. Interruption of the supervision current is converted by interface (I1) into an A lead supervision signal for the key telephone system (KTS1). Voice communication between the modified station set (S1) and the key telephone system (KTS1) occurs over a separate voice communication pair (V1).