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Station interface for digital electronic telephone switching system having centralized digital audio processor

US4577310A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 16, 1984
Grant dateMar 18, 1986
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Expiry dateMay 16, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q11/04
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A station interface for a digital electronic telephone switching system is disclosed. The station interface couples a plurality of digital telephone instruments to a digital data bus having PCM encoded signals representative of analog voice signals time-division multiplexed thereon. The station interface enables two way communication between the telephone instruments and the digital data bus and includes a frame store memory for temporarily storing digital data on the data bus and assigning the digital data to system time slots. The output of the frame store memory is selectively supplied under microprocessor control to a digital audio processor which processes the PCM encoded voice signals from the telephone stations and supplies these signals to the audio processor. The audio processor digitally processes both the selected data from the frame store memory and the data from the telephone stations forwarded by a multiplexer, in respective system time slots, under microprocessor control. The PCM encoded signals are gain modified under the control of the microprocessor by the audio processor. The microprocessor monitors accumulated values of the energy of the voice signals originatin…

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