Wireless butt set

US6252942A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HARRIS CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Edward J. Zoiss · Moorpark, US
• Ronald S. Squires · Craydon Court, US
• Glen Holt Humphrey · San Fernando, US
• James David COLEMAN · Malibu, US
• Linda L. Hathorn · Camarillo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 26, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M3/308
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless butt set for testing a telephone line includes a base station that is connectable to tip and ring leads of a line under test and is configured to be operated by a wireless telephone handset. The handset is detachably nestable with the base station to form a hand-held integrated butt set assembly. This configuration allows a craftsperson to directly or remotely control the test set using controls of the wireless telephone handset. The internal circuitry of the base station is placed in a high impedance line-monitoring mode without going off-hook, in response to one `click` of a talk switch of the handset, and goes off-hook in response to a `double-click` of the talk switch the handset.