Wireless telephone communication for individual callers to contact remote telephone terminals through a public switched telephone network

A process using a central station for interfacing a plurality of keyless mobile telephone instruments through a public switched telephone network to communicate with remote terminals, comprising the steps of:

• sensing the activation of a keyless mobile telephone instrument by a manual switch, thereby indicating a desire by a user to interface a select remote terminal and to activate voice interface and transmit identification data;
• receiving a prompted user spoken telephone calling number at an activated keyless mobile telephone instrument to formulate representative calling number signals for a select remote terminal;
• transmitting the representative calling number signals to a central station;
• at the central station, receiving the representative calling number signals;
• connecting the activated keyless mobile telephone instrument to the public switched telephone network and supplying dial-up calling number signal indicative of the representative calling number signals, to the public switched telephone network to dial-up the select remote terminal;
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• limiting the use of the keyless mobile telephone instruments in accordance with prepaid use for the mobile telephone instruments by maintaining individual balances of use for the keyless mobile telephone instruments subject to increasing and decreasing value.

A system of mobile telecommunication through a public switched telephone network, comprising:

• a plurality of keyless, wireless mobile telephone instruments including, a manual activation switch to activate operation of an instrument, a transceiver for wireless communication, transducer apparatus coupled to the transceiver for enabling a user to receive vocal transmissions and to provide vocalized calling signals, and a control unit coupled to said transceiver and said transducer apparatus, said control unit operable for an activated keyless wireless mobile telephone instrument to control on activated operation to transmit an identification signal:
• the reception of vocal cues, the transmission of vocalized calling signals, responsive to said vocal cues, for a select remote telephone terminal and to sequence the voice interface operation of an activated keyless wireless mobile telephone instrument to accomplish telephonic communication with said select remote telephone terminal;
• a central station including wireless apparatus for communication with activated keyless wireless mobile telephone instruments including control apparatus to accordingly connect such an instrument through a public switched telephone network to said select remote telephone terminal;
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• memory capability for storing prepaid calling balances for the keyless, wireless mobile telephone instruments to limit the use thereof and to account for calls.

A mobile wireless telephone system for enabling users to communicate with remote terminals via the public switched telephone network by voice dialing to attain a connection, comprising:

• keyless mobile wireless telephone instruments having a memory to store individual identification data and further including a transceiver with transducers for converting received spoken sounds to representative signals and converting received spoken word signals to vocalized words, the mobile wireless telephone instruments further including a control with a manual switch to activate a mobile wireless telephone instrument to transmit representations of the individual identification data, and to provide voice recognition operation identified with transmitted individual identification data for the active mobile wireless telephone instrument;
• a central station for wireless communication with the keyless mobile wireless telephone instruments to attain a connection to a select remote terminal for an active keyless mobile wireless telephone instrument and including, a memory to store individual prepaid call balances for the mobile wireless telephone instruments, a communication platform with control for communication with active mobile wireless telephone instruments to receive individual identification data from an active mobile wireless telephone instrument and thereby verify the sufficiency of the prepaid call balance for a call, the central station further including controlled voice activation capability to cue a verified active mobile wireless telephone instrument and to receive representations of a spoken call number, to dial up the call number through the public switched telephone network and to bridge the dialed connection to the active mobile wireless telephone instrument.