Abstract: A detector circuit is shown for detecting off-hook and dial pulse signals in a telephone system which, under the control of a ringing relay, reconfigures itself to provide ring-trip detection. The detection circuit includes a bridge which is responsive to circulating loop currents, while at the same time unresponsive to longitudinally balanced currents, and a two-stage voltage level detector circuit. An RC timing circuit is included between the two stages to insure that the detector is unresponsive to short duration pulses and, at the same time, once energized, will bridge over short duration interruptions of detected pulses.

Abstract: A subscriber loop carrier system using digital multiplex techniques is disclosed in which remote subscriber loops include multiparty lines. Four party fully selective ringing signals are detected at the central office terminal of the system and converted to cyclic codes which are detected at the remote terminal with simple asynchronous circuits. The code generation and detection circuits are implemented with multiple output inverter circuits which provide simple logic structures for integrated circuit realization. Standard polarized ringing signals are applied to either conductor at the remote terminal of the system to ring the proper party.