Interfacing system for an international-type pay-telephone
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    国际式付费电话接口系统

    公开(公告)号:US5046085A

    公开(公告)日:1991-09-03

    申请号:US524192

    申请日:1990-05-15

    IPC分类号: H04M15/28 H04M17/02 H04W4/24

    摘要: An interface unit for coupling an international-type pay-telephone to a land-based or cellular telephone system. The interfacing unit of the invention has a microcomputer, and an associated EPROM in which is stored the exchanges of the telephone numbers that are accessible by that local payphone-terminal, which EPROM also stores a table indicative of the tariffing rates associated with the respective exchanges called. The invention also includes the tone-detectors for detecting the dialed DTMF digits of the pay-telephone, for the conversion thereof for storage in the microcomputer for the determination of a valid telephone number dialed in order to determine the associated tariffing rates. The tone detectors also detect the tone-signals received from the telephone system. The invention also includes "isolating" switching circuitry for isolating the coin-operated pay terminal from its couplement to the telephone system until the telephone call has been connected. After a call has been made according to the invention, the microcomputer, after having determined the tariffing schedule for that particular call made, will generate 12K to 16K tone-bursts to the international-type payphone terminal required for debiting the required amount from the coins or credit initially inserted into the payphone.

    摘要翻译: 用于将国际型付费电话连接到陆基或蜂窝电话系统的接口单元。 本发明的接口单元具有微型计算机和相关联的EPROM,其中存储可由该本地付费电话终端访问的电话号码的交换机,该EPROM还存储表示与各交换机相关联的收费率的表 叫。 本发明还包括用于检测付费电话的拨号DTMF数字的音调检测器,用于其转换以存储在微型计算机中,以便确定拨打的有效电话号码以便确定相关联的费率。 音调检测器还检测从电话系统接收的音调信号。 本发明还包括“隔离”切换电路,用于将投币式付费终端与其耦合隔离到电话系统,直到电话呼叫已被连接。 在根据本发明进行呼叫之后,微型计算机在确定了该特定呼叫的收费时间表之后,将向国际型付费电话终端产生12K至16K的音调脉冲串,以从硬币中扣除所需的金额 或最初插入到付费电话中的信用。