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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kumar Ramaswamy, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Paul Gothard Knutson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Maneck Behram Kapadia, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 ; H04M 1/68 ; H04M 3/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 ; H04M 1/68 ; H04M 3/16 ;
Abstract
A wireless telephone system, having one or more wireless handsets and a base unit. Each handset has a handset transceiver, and the base unit has a base transceiver and a handset docking station, which has a wired interface. The base unit digitally communicates over an RF channel with a handset via its handset transceiver only if the handset has previously been initialized by the base unit. The handset is initialized via the wired interface when it is physically docked in the docking station.