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Trading telephone

US5465292A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Filing dateSep 20, 1993
Grant dateNov 7, 1995
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Expiry dateSep 20, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M9/003
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A trading telephone unit of a trading telephone system includes three display devices and control keys on the trading telephone unit. A first display device is provided at an upper left side of the unit having a function keyboard and a ten-key keyboard provided thereunder. On the right side of the unit, two display devices are provided in parallel with one of the two display devices being a second display device having, for example, twenty line selecting keys and a third display device having fifteen line selecting keys and four incoming line selecting keys, thereby enabling the unit to indicate thirty-five lines at once. The trading telephone includes pagenation memory having, for example, ten pages of memory with each page carrying thirty-five line names and dialing numbers. By user request, any one of the pages is called on the second and third display devices with the present page number being displayed on the third display device and on-hold line status information being displayed on the first display device.

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