Abstract: The present invention is to provide a mobile phone comprising a body and a housing. A hollow is formed within the housing and the body is slidably disposed in the hollow. The hollow has an opening in an end of the housing and the other end terminated at a closed end of the housing distal the opening. A display (e.g., LCD (liquid crystal display)) is disposed on a front surface of the housing. The body comprises a circuit board and an input device. The circuit board is installed within the body and comprises electronic circuits and devices for controlling the components of the mobile phone. The input device (e.g., alphanumeric keypad) is disposed on a front surface of the body for operating the mobile phone. The body is capable of being engaged with the housing and being slid towards outside of the hollow through the opening to expose the input device for a user to make a phone call.

Abstract: A serial/parallel converter 2—converts a B channel data in an ISDN into an 8-bit parallel data and outputs it to a latch circuit 3. A comparator 4—compares an octet data latched by the latch circuit 3 with a preset idle pattern and, when the octet is different from the preset idle pattern, outputs a disaccord signal to a pulse generator 5. When an idle pattern appears continuously on the B channel, a timer circuit 6 outputs a significant signal. With using the significant signal from the timer circuit 6, it is possible to judge that the B channel is in non-use state, so that it can be determined by the simple circuit construction whether or not the B channel is in the use state.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for searching trunks in exchange systems that a subsystem searches a standby idle trunk for preparing a next trunk usage, stores information of the standby idle trunk and then processes a current call service by connecting the preset trunk when the call is required, whereby minimizing load of the system as well as improving a search speed of the trunk. The exchange system applied to the present system is composed of a subscriber call processing unit, a number decoding unit, a routing control unit, and a plurality of switching subsystems. The present invention has advantages to prevent the processor load from increasing according to the call processing as well as improve the system stability efficiently.

Abstract: This present invention relates to a method for managing trunk status of a CDMA mobile communication exchange. A CDMA mobile communication exchange according to the present invention has the logical trunk and physical trunks relation to the trunk status, which respectively are managed in separate subsystems, and handles the physical trunks distributed and implemented in various subsystems as a single route through the use of the logical trunk structure in order to manage it in a single subsystem, such that the easy route management and route data collection are made possible. Further, the duplicate management are made for the trunk status through separate systems, which allows thus program for managing logical trunk status to collect trunk status from subsystem for managing physical trunk status and vice versa. Therefore, an effective management for the trunk status can be accomplished, and the route management and routing functions are further improved.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for performing circular hunts within a switch. Only a limited number of trunk groups are searched in a PSTN switch which has large numbers of trunks available. Additionally, the starting point of the search varies among the trunk groups. This search method is called a circular hunt with window. The invention limits the amount of time and resources spent searching for available call routes and more efficiently distributes traffic across trunk groups.

Abstract: A test terminal includes a circuit for opening a loop switch to prevent setting up of calls from the terminal via a telephone line when a signal received from the telephone line via a first high-impedance connection exceeds a predetermined threshold indicating that the telephone line is busy. An alarm circuit indicates that any call from the terminal is prohibited. Operation of the terminal in discreet monitoring mode is also prohibited if the line is busy.

Abstract: Method for overload prevention in a switching center of a communication network. For optimizing the overload prevention of a switching center, the operating personnel assign fixed priority levels bundle-by-bundle to the ports of the trunks. Since this allocation is often implemented in an unprofessional manner, the behavior of the switching center is correspondingly unfavorable in case of an overload. In order to avoid this problem, the priority levels for ports of trunks are automatically assigned by the software of the switching center in accordance with the method for overload prevention.

Abstract: An arrangement that enables an adjunct processor to determine the service status of switching system communication ports to which the adjunct processor is connected, without reliance on switch-to-adjunct status-conveying messages. In-service and idle ones of the ports participate in calls on a rotating basis. Following receipt of N calls, where N is the number of in-service ports connected to the adjunct processor, the arrangement determines whether each port that is presently designated as being in-service and idle has participated in one communication before a port has participated in a second communication. The arrangement then treats as out-of-service any port presently designated as being in-service that has been so determined a predetermined number of sequential times. It also selectively designates as in-service ports that have participated in communications since the last determination had been made.

Abstract: The present invention provides a single stage crossbar and a controller for controlling the crossbar that provides a capacity for "wide-sense non-blocking" connection of input signals to outputs that exceeds the number of outputs to which a given input is connected. Thus, the capacity of the crossbar is increased using a smaller number of crosspoints in a single stage than was available in the prior art.In one aspect, the present invention is an apparatus for connecting a signal on one of a plurality of inputs to a non-busy one of a plurality of outputs, comprising a plurality of controllable switches arranged so that each input is connectable to at least an integer q outputs and so that no two inputs share more than an integer c outputs. The invention further comprises a controller for controlling the controllable switches to connect the signal to a non-busy output so that no more than an integer f outputs that are connectable to any input become busy, where f is less than q.