Communications system having voice and digital data capability and employing a plurality of voice and data buses in main service unit and serial packetized transmission to and from telephones

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4740955
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06924677

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A communications system having a common equipment unit and a plurality of telephone station sets coupled to the common equipment unit comprises a common equipment unit having at least one trunk interface for coupling at least one central office telephone line to the common equipment unit and an analog to digital converter for converting analog signals on the telephone line into digital form, and at least one station interface coupling the common equipment unit to at least one of the station sets by a single wire pair. A plurality of buses couple the trunk interface and the station interface together, the plurality of buses comprising at least one digital voice bus for carrying digitized voice signals, a digital data bus for carrying digital data signals originating from a digital data device and a control data bus for carrying digital data comprising control information for controlling functions in the station sets for routing the data on the digital voice bus and the digital data bus between at least one of the station sets and the telephone line.

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TIE/COMMUNICATIONS INC FIVE RESEARCH DRIVE SHELTON CT 06484 A CORP OF DENot Provided
NITSUKO LTD 260 KITAMIKATA TAKATSU-KU KAWASAKI 213 JAPAN A CORP OF JAPANNot Provided

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anderson, John E Milford, CT 53 1284
Hamatani, Fumikazu Milford, CT 5 110
Litterer, Joseph W Fairfield, CT 1 77
Mason, Gary Middletown, CT 3 132
Shigematsu, Minoru Kawasaki, JP 3 99

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