摘要:
In a time-allocation telephone system with 96 local lines served by a common switching channel via four two-wire branch channels each allotted to a respective group of 24 lines, an integrating network counts the number of phases in a 100-phase clock cycle during which either wire of a particular branch channel is energized. If the number of unit charges stored in the integrating network during a cycle exceeds the maximum number (48) possible during normal operation, a comparator also receiving a fixed reference voltage trips a flip-flop to inhibit the transmission of switching signals to the main channel from the branch channel in the following cycle. At the beginning of each new cycle, the flip-flop is reset with immediately following discharge of the integrating network.
摘要:
A telephone exchange serving a plurality of subscriber groups on a time-sharing basis has an address memory (N) for the code numbers of called (or calling) subscribers and a monitoring memory (P) operating in step therewith to register operational code words in corresponding time slots, there being 100 such time slots of 1 Mu sec. duration in each memory for the establishment of several service phases (000, 001, 002, 003) and a multiplicity of communication phases (004-099) allowing for up to 96 simultaneous conversations over a communication path including a voice lead (Va) and a signal lead (Vs) from which respective branches (Vah, Vsh) extend to each of the several subscriber groups. During a service phase (001) of a cycle in which no caller requests the transmission of ringing current to any called subscriber associated with the exchange, a ringing circuit (Vc) common to all subscriber groups is energized from an audiofrequency generator (GH) for the testing of the voice and signaling circuits of an idle subscriber identified by a code entered in the corresponding time slot of the address memory, the tests proceeding under the control of code words in the same time slot of the monitoring memory which is stepped upon the successful completion of any test. If the subscriber line is found intact, the counter represented by the service phase (001) of the address memory is stepped to register the next higher (or next lower) code number for the testing of another idle subscriber; if a defect is ascertained, an alarm signal is generated which in certain cases inhibits the establishment of any connection between the communication path and the group containing the affected subscriber.
摘要:
To distinguish between DC pulses of different length detected by periodic sampling of a given transmission line, a data processor evaluates a combination of criteria including the instantaneously sampled line voltage (A), the continuity or lack of continuity of that voltage for a prolonged period (D6''), and the output of the data processor in a preceding sampling interval. This output is preserved, for subsequent reevaluation, in the form of a digital code stored in a time slot of a circulating memory assigned to the line under test. Some of the output signals of the data processor identify transitory conditions which, in the next evaluation cycle, must be converted into one of two possible definite conditions recognized as significant line-voltage criteria.
摘要:
A monitoring memory (300) of the circulating type has a first section (MC) with 100 phases for the activities of as many local lines identified by two-digit decimal numbers, a second section (MR) subdivided into several multiphase storage units (RET) for receiving, evaluating and transmitting information relating to a call involving an associated local line, and a third section (MS) carrying supplemental information such as the time of day. With 800 phases circulating at a rate of one memory cycle per 800 Mu s, two consecutive counting phases in the third memory section are stepped once per cycle to produce, consecutively, the 100 line-identification numbers or addresses 00-99. A digital counter (100), operating in synchronism with the first section of the monitoring memory, periodically delivers the addresses of the 100 local lines to a comparator (820) matching them with the progressively changing address information stored in the third memory section for a successive sampling of all the lines at intervals of 100 cycles, or 80 ms; this comparison is facilitated by the concurrent tapping of the two consecutive counting phases of the third memory section (MS) whereby the two address digits are simultaneously made available. If a line is found engaged, this information is fed to a logic network (EC) which thereupon seizes an available storage unit (RET) to register the pertinent data in the phases thereof and to feed them to a tape perforator (PF). Upon the response of the called station, or upon premature termination by the calling party, the storage unit (RET) is released; when the call is completed, the same or another such unit and perforator are seized to record the length of the conversation.
摘要:
A decoder used to emit a succession of commands in the testing of telephone lines, with several output leads only one of which carries a voltage of unit magnitude in any operating condition of the decoder, is checked for correct performance by a network in which a first conductor Y1 is connected to all the output leads Ha...Hn of the decoder through respective diodes D1a...D1n while a second conductor Y2 is connected to these same leads through other diodes Da...Dn in series with respective resistors Ra...Rn. A first comparator CO1 measures the voltage Vy1 of the first conductor against a reference voltage V0 while a second comparator CO2 measures the voltage Vy2 of the second conductor against voltage Vy1; only comparator CO1 has a true output if the decoder functions correctly with a single output lead energized, whereas in all other instances both decoders have outputs of either zero or unity.
摘要:
In a telecommunication system of the time-sharing type wherein several calls are concurrently conducted over a common line circuit by means of interleaved message signals recurring in a predetermined order, command pulses relating to the several calls are sequentially directed to the input of a register with several parallel memory stages each including a delay line whose delay time encompasses a number of pulse cycles equal to the maximum number of calls to be accommodated simultaneously by the line circuit. Digital pulses traveling along each memory stage are continuously fed back from the output to the input thereof for reinscription until modified by a command signal applied to all the memory stages through a logic matrix for carrying out such operations as ''''enter 1,'''' ''''enter 0,'''' ''''inscribe new number,'''' ''''add 1'''' and ''''subtract 1.