Audio teleconferencing
CA 1112744 A · Owner: Post Office · Inventors: Guard, David R.; Whalley, Steven; Groves, Ian S.
Overview
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A control unit for establishing a four-wire connection between two terminals via a pair of telephone lines comprises switching means which are operable to provide a connection to a pair of telephone lines, signalling means connectible to said lines via said switching means to enable another control unit to be signalled via a line and line, send and receive circuitry connected to the switching means. The line send and receive circuitry has an input for connection to the send channel of a terminal and an output for connection to the receive channel of the terminal. A central control controls operation of the switching means and line send and receive circuitry to automatically establish a …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted November 17, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 17, 1998.
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