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Digital composite tone alerting

US4972466A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 12, 1989
Grant dateNov 20, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 12, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q1/4575
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Within a digital PBX system or the like, an appartaus permits provision of digital composite tone alerting particularly suitable for piezoelectric transducers with one arbitrarily selectable tone, by means of logic circuits for latching the sign-bit in a received PCM signal that exceeds a validity threshold, and by combining the toggling sign-bit with another tone to yield the composite tone.

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