Portable radiotelephone for automatically dialing a central voice-activated dialing system
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsGregory Clyde Griffith, Benjamin F. Holcomb
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Abstract
A portable radiotelephone can be shifted between a first condition wherein the radiotelephone does not receive or transmit voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels and a second condition wherein the radiotelephone receives and transmits voice communications by radiotelephone transmissions over radiotelephone channels. The radiotelephone automatically calls a central voice-activated phone dialing system remote from the portable radiotelephone in response to producing the second condition in the radiotelephone. The radiotelephone includes a switch for producing the first and second conditions.
Claims20
A cellular telephone device for connecting to a remote voice-activated dialing system, the cellular telephone device comprising:
- a housing comprising a mouthpiece portion, an earpiece portion, a base portion, and a lighted display, the housing not containing a keypad;
- a transceiver and a processor contained within the housing;
- and
- a memory contained within the housing, the memory storing a telephone number for the remote voice-activated dialing system and storing instructions and that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
- powering up the cellular telephone device, wherein powering up the cellular telephone device is in response to a cover of the cellular telephone device being shifted from a first position to a second position,
- when the cellular telephone device is powered up, communicating with the remote voice-activated dialing system via the telephone number for the remote voice-activated dialing system stored on the memory, and
- displaying, via the lighted display, the telephone number for the remote voice-activated dialing system.
A method of connecting to a remote voice-activated dialing system, the method comprising:
- powering up, by a processor of a cellular telephone device, the cellular telephone device, wherein powering up the cellular telephone device is in response to a cover of the cellular telephone device being shifted from a first position to a second position;
- reading, by the processor automatically upon powering up the cellular telephone device, a telephone number associated with the remote voice-activated dialing system from a memory of the cellular telephone device;
- using, by the processor, the telephone number to connect to the remote voice-activated dialing system for initiating an outgoing call;
- and
- displaying, via a display of the cellular telephone device, the telephone number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.