US 6,028,531 AGranted

Terminal units for a mobile communications system

OwnerRonald E. Wanderlichinventor

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Abstract

A terminal unit of a mobile communications system for providing a non-numeric annunciation of an incoming mobile communications signal with a terminal unit housing, a mechanism for coupling the terminal unit housing to an incoming mobile communications signal receiver, a normally inactive non-numeric annunciator operably associated with the terminal unit housing, and a mechanism for coupling the non-numeric annunciator to a mobile communications signal receiver. The mobile communications terminal unit may be constructed for use as a personal vibrator of the type used on a human body with a user engaging portion that may comprise a smooth-ended rod, a smooth plug, or a vibratory aperture. The mobile communications terminal unit alternatively may be constructed with an acoustic or a tactile annunciator for practicing a method of transmitting a command signal to a domestic animal.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A terminal unit of a mobile communications system for providing a non-numeric annunciation of a mobile communications signal, the terminal unit comprising:

a terminal unit housing;
a means for coupling the terminal unit housing to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
a normally inactive non-numeric annunciator means operably associated with the terminal unit housing for non-numerically annunciating a receipt of the mobile communications signal, and
a means for coupling the non-numeric annunciator means to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
wherein the mobile communications terminal unit is constructed for use as a personal vibrator of the type used on a human body wherein the terminal unit housing comprises an exterior surface with a user engaging portion wherein the non-numeric annunciator means comprises a means operably associated with the terminal unit housing for producing a vibratory annunciation for vibrating at least the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing in response to a receipt of the mobile communications signal by a means for receiving a communications signal whereby one sending the mobile communications signal can employ mobile communications to induce a vibration of the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing thereby enabling one receiving the mobile communications signal to apply the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing to a human body to provide the human body with a vibratory sensation;
and
wherein the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing comprises an elongate cylindrical section and a rounded nose coupled to an end of the cylindrical section to present a user engaging portion shaped like a smooth-ended rod and wherein the means for producing a vibratory annunciation vibrates the elongate cylindrical section and the rounded nose in response to a receipt of the mobile communications signal by a means for receiving a mobile communications signal thereby enabling one receiving the mobile communications signal to apply the user engaging portion to a human body including around and into orifices of the human body.

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A terminal unit of a mobile communications system for providing a non-numeric annunciation of a mobile communications signal, the terminal unit comprising:

a terminal unit housing;
a means for coupling the terminal unit housing to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
a normally inactive non-numeric annunciator means operably associated with the terminal unit housing for non-numerically annunciating a receipt of the mobile communications signal;
and
a means for coupling the non-numeric annunciator means to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
wherein the mobile communications terminal unit is constructed for use as a personal vibrator of the type used on a human body wherein the terminal unit housing comprises an exterior surface with a user engaging portion wherein the non-numeric annunciator means comprises a means operably associated with the terminal unit housing for producing a vibratory annunciation for vibrating at least the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing in response to a receipt of the mobile communications signal by a means for receiving a communications signal whereby one sending the mobile communications signal can employ mobile communications to induce a vibration of the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing thereby enabling one receiving the mobile communications signal to apply the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing to a human body to provide the human body with a vibratory sensation;
and
wherein the user engaging portion of the terminal unit housing comprises an aperture in the terminal unit housing wherein the means for producing a vibratory annunciation vibrates the aperture in response to a receipt of the mobile communications signal by a means for receiving a mobile communications signal for enabling one receiving the mobile communications signal to insert an extremity of a human body into the aperture in the terminal unit housing in a mating relationship to provide the extremity of the human body with a vibratory sensation.

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A terminal unit of a mobile communications system for providing a non-numeric annunciation of a mobile communications signal the terminal unit comprising:

a terminal unit housing;
a means for coupling the terminal unit housing to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
a normally inactive non-numeric annunciator means operably associated with the terminal unit housing for non-numerically annunciating a receipt of the mobile communications signal;
and
a means for coupling the non-numeric annunciator means to a means for receiving a mobile communications signal;
wherein the mobile communications terminal unit is constructed for use in transmitting a command signal to a domestic animal;
a means for attaching the mobile communications terminal unit to the domestic animal comprising a collar.

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A method for employing mobile communications to enable one sending a mobile communications signal to transmit a command signal to a domestic animal comprising the steps of:

a) providing a terminal unit of a mobile communications system for imparting a non-numeric indication of the mobile communications signal wherein the terminal unit comprises a terminal unit housing, a means for receiving the mobile communications signal operably associated with the terminal unit housing, and a normally inactive non-numeric annunciator means operably associated with the terminal unit housing and operably associated with the means for receiving a mobile communications signal for non-numerically annunciating a receipt of the mobile communications signal;
b) attaching the mobile communications terminal unit to the domestic animal;
c) sending the mobile communications signal to the mobile communications terminal unit thereby causing the non-numeric annunciator means to annunciate the receipt of the mobile communications signal thereby transmitting a command signal to the domestic animal that wears the mobile communications terminal unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.