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US 2017/0013103 A1Published application
Desktop telephone system
AssigneeGN Netcom A/S
InventorsKim Ziersen JAKOBSEN, Per Koch JENSEN, Ulrik Allum RASMUSSEN, Stefan HEISE
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AssigneeGN Netcom A/S
InventorsKim Ziersen JAKOBSEN, Per Koch JENSEN, Ulrik Allum RASMUSSEN, Stefan HEISE
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The present invention relates to a desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) and to a method for operating a desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) and may advantageously be utilized in voice communication systems connected to telephone networks (7, 11, 67). The present invention provides a desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) that can handle a number of ambiguous or complex situations that can occur in daily use of known headset systems. The desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) comprises two or more sound interface devices (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) each providing a sound interface to a user during telephone conversations and two or more gateway devices (2, 3, 62, 63) each serving as a telephone gateway between a telephone network (7, 11, 67) and each sound interface device (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) during telephone conversations. Each gateway device (2, 3, 62, 63) provides a call announcement signal (21, 41) in response to detecting an incoming telephone call (20, 40) from a telephone network (7, 11, 67), and each sound interface device (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) comprises an action detector (22, 30) providing a user accept signal (23, 31) in response to detecting a predefined accept action performed by the user. At least one gateway device (2, 3, 62, 63) provides the call announcement signal (21, 41) to a wireless control network (18), and at least one sound interface device (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) provides the user accept signal (23, 31) to the wireless control network (18). The desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) further comprises a control device (19, 52) adapted to receive a first call announcement signal (21, 41) and a first user accept signal (23, 31), at least one of these from the wireless control network (18), to determine a first gateway device (2, 3, 62, 63) as source of the first call announcement signal (21, 41), to determine a first sound interface device (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) as source of the first user accept signal (23, 31), to determine a relationship between the first call announcement signal (21, 41) and the first user accept signal (23, 31), and to cause the desktop telephone system (1, 51, 61) to establish an audio connection (15, 16, 17, 44, 47, 48) between the first gateway device (2, 3, 62, 63) and the first sound interface device (2, 3, 4, 8, 62, 63, 64) in dependence on the determined relationship.
A desktop telephone system comprising two or more sound interface devices each being adapted to provide a sound interface to a user during telephone conversations and two or more gateway devices each being adapted to serve as a telephone gateway between a telephone network and each of said two or more sound interface devices during telephone conversations, each of said two or more gateway devices further being adapted to provide a call announcement signal in response to detecting an incoming telephone call from a telephone network, and each of said two or more sound interface devices further comprising an action detector adapted to provide a user accept signal in response to detecting a predefined accept action performed by said user,
A method for operating a desktop telephone system comprising one or more control devices, two or more sound interface devices each being adapted to provide a sound interface to a user during telephone conversations and two or more gateway devices each being adapted to serve as a telephone gateway between a telephone network and each of said two or more sound interface devices during telephone conversations,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.