Control system of a radio telephone apparatus

Claim 2

A radio telephone system for use with a wired telephone system, comprising: a base unit connected to the wired telephone system; a handset; means in said base unit, responsive to a call from said wired telephone system, for broadcasting paging signals on a first communications channel; means in said handset for receiving paging signals from said base unit; means in said handset, responsive to said received paging signals, for broadcasting on said first communications channel paging response signals having handset identification data; means in said base unit for receiving said paging response signals from said handset; field detecting means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a first detection signal when the signal strength of said received paging response signals is stronger than a predetermined signal strength; means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a second detection signal in response to the detection of said identification data in said received paging response signals; and means, responsive to the presence of said first detection signal and said second detection signal, for establishing a communication link between said base station and said handset on a second communications channel.

Claim 3

The radio telephone system of claim 1 wherein said paging signals include frequency information of said second communications channel.

Claim 4

A radio telephone system for use with a wired telephone system, comprising: a base unit connected to the wired telephone system; a handset; means in said base unit, responsive to a call signal on the wired telephone system, for broadcasting paging signals containing frequency information of at least one communications channel; means in said handset for receiving said paging signals; means in said handset, responsive to said handset receiving means, for broadcasting paging response signals having handset identification data; means in said base unit for receiving said paging response signals; means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a first detection signal when the signal strength of said received paging response signals is stronger than a predetermined signal strength; means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a second detection signal in response to the detection of said handset identification data in said received paging response signal; means in said base unit, responsive to said means for generating a first detection signal and said means for generating a second detection signal, for broadcasting and receiving signals over said at least one communication channel designated by said frequency information in response to the presence of both said first detection signal and said second detection signal; and means in said handset for broadcasting and receiving signals over said at least one communications channel designated by said frequency information after broadcasting said paging response signals.

Claim 5

A radio telephone system for use with a wired telephone system, comprising: a base unit connected to the wired telephone system; a handset; means in said base unit, responsive to a call signal on the wired telephone system, for broadcasting paging signals containing frequency information of at least one communications channel; means in said handset for receiving said paging signals; means in said handset, responsive to said handset receiving means, for broadcasting paging response signals having handset identification data; means in said base unit for receiving said paging response signals; means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a first detection signal when the signal strength of said received paging response signals is stronger than a predetermined signal strength; means in said base unit, responsive to said base unit receiving means, for generating a second detection signal in response to the detection of said handset identification data in said received paging response signal; means in said base unit, responsive to said means for generating a first detection signal and said means for generating a second detection signal, for broadcasting and receiving signals over said at least one communication channel designated by said frequency information in response to the presence of both said first detection signal and said second detection signal; and means in said handset for broadcasting and receiving signals over said at least one communications channel designated by said frequency information after broadcasting said paging response signals.

Claim 6

The radio telephone system of claim 3 wherein said base unit means for broadcasting paging signals includes means for terminating said means for broadcasting when said first and second detection signals are simultaneously present.

Claim 7

The radio telephone system of claim 3 further comprising a handset power supply having a battery power source, wherein said power supply intermittently energizes said handset receiving means during a time interval T 1 over each time interval of T 1 +T 2 duration.

Claim 8

The radio telephone system of claim 5 wherein said base unit means for broadcasting paging signals includes means for repetitively broadcasting a predetermined number of paging signals over a time period during which said handset is intermittenly energized.

Claim 9

The radio telephone system of claim 5 wherein said base unit includes means for broadcasting a predetermined number of paging signals while said first detection signal is not present.

Claim 10

The radio telephone system of claim 6 wherein said predetermined number of times, represented by m, is determined according to the following formula: a×m≧(T.sub.1 +T.sub.2)+a where a is the time duration of said paging signals; T 1 is the time period with power supplied by said power supply; and T 2 is the time period with no power supplied by said power supply.

Claim 13

The method of controlling a radio telephone system of claim 9 wherein said step of broadcasting paging signals includes broadcasting frequency information of said second communications channel as part of said paging signal.

Claim 16

The method of controlling a radio telephone system of claim 11 further including the step of supplying power intermittently from a battery power supply to said handset receiver during a time interval T 1 over each time interval of T 1 +T 2 .

Claim 17

The method of controlling a radio telephone system of claim 12 wherein said step of broadcasting paging signals includes repetitively broadcasting a predetermined number of paging signals over a time period during which said handset receiver is intermittently supplied with power.

Claim 18

The method of controlling a radio telephone system of claim 12 wherein said step of broadcasting paging signals includes broadcasting a predetermined number of paging signals while said first detection signal is not present.

Claim 19

The method of controlling a radio telephone system of claim 13 wherein said step of broadcasting a predetermined number of times includes determining said predetermined number of times, represented by m, according to the following formula: a×m≧(T.sub.1 +T.sub.2)+a where a is the time duration of said paging signals; T 1 is the time period with power supplied by said power supply; and T 2 is the time period with no power supplied by said power supply.