Local communications device

US6754468B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Micronas Intermetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Sieben · Meßkirch, DE
• Miodrag Temerinac · Gundelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 1999
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2004
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M1/72412
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A Portable communications device (1), particularly as an additional functional unit in a radiotelephone (100), comprising an input, output radio interface (2) for local data exchange between two adjacent communications devices (1; 100) or between a communications device (1; 100) and a data processing device (12) adapted to the,local data exchange, or a data-reproducing device (13), or an adapted data source (50). The range (r) of the input/output radio interface (2) is short compared with the range of a conventional radio interface for data :transfer, and corresponds essentially to a talking distance. The communications device (1, 100) further includes a memory device (6) and a data processing device (5). Different data sequences are identified and selectively retrievable in the memory device (6). The activation of the input/output radio interface (2) can be initiated manually.