DE1010584B - Charge recording device for telecommunication systems, in particular telephone extension systems - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN

The invention relates to a billing device for telecommunication systems, in particular telephone extension systems, in which the individual; Fee information, stored separately in facilities and, as required, various types of recording facilities for permanent recording are fed.

The invention is based on the task of determining the charges for a call, in particular a long distance call, required information automatically through a printing facility and / or a strip punch or other different registration devices to be recorded permanently. While at the printing facility the information, such as the calling number Subscriber and the called subscriber, fee in fee units or in monetary value, Date, among other things, can be printed and read directly on the slip of paper in plain text, a punched tape with the same information in code form is produced by the tape punch. This Punched tape corresponds to the one used in teleprinting technology and can be used fully automatically Revaluation can be used in punch cards or in plain text by a telex typewriter.

As the registration devices, for example fee printers or tape punches, for a large number of of connecting lines or in telephone extension systems are provided for the entire system, In known systems of this type, the individual information is stored in facilities and one after the other fed to the registration devices. So are for example the trunk transfer of a private branch exchange a device for subscriber identification, in which the number of the calling subscriber is identified and stored, and Charge memory for recording the accruing charge units and a selection memory for recording assigned to the number of the called subscriber.

In these known arrangements there is a synchronization of the different types of registration devices not possible. However, this synchronism is necessary for the correct functioning of the charge recording device absolutely necessary. Since the registration facilities receive the information at different speeds can evaluate and their resetting in. The starting position also takes place at different speeds, there is the risk that some of the information supplied one after the other to the registration devices can already be requested and evaluated by one registration device, although the other Registration device is not yet ready to record this information. In this case, from

Fee collection facility

for telecommunications systems, in particular

Telephone PBXs

Applicant:

Standard Elektrik Aktiengesellschaft,
Stuttgart-Zuifenhausen,
Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 42

Claimed priority:

Exhibition of April 29, 1956 on the 2Θ. April 1956

opened the German Industrial Fair in Hanover in 1956

(Technical fair - sample fair) in Hanover

Dipl.-Ing. Wilhelm Loth, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen,
has been named as the inventor

of the latter registration device the following Information is not captured.

. According to the invention, this is avoided in that the various registration devices are preceded by a common control device, in which switching means are provided which come into effect when all registration devices are free to receive further information, and that these.Schaltmittel the forwarding of the next stored information _: zü. the various

Registration devices. And the activation of the storage device of the previously recorded Control information.,

According to a further embodiment of the invention, the information itself is' directly from the storage devices on-the various registration devices: given in parallel operation. As a strip punch expediently, according to a further embodiment of the invention, one commonly used in telex technology Strip punch uses the individual information coded on a strip of holes.

- The invention is described in more detail below with reference to an embodiment shown in FIGS. the
"Fig. 1 shows a principle arrangement of the charge metering device.. For * telephone substations ^ systems; the,.. /,; ^T

, Fig. 2 shows the basic structure of the control device, . through the. the synchronism of all:? Registration facility is guaranteed.

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As an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a character receiver Z takes over the day and time charge recording device for branch memory T for the generally from a main system described. The individual facilities, clock-controlled time evaluation. From both sources, such as devices for storing the information Zeic'henempfänger Z and day and time memory T, functions and the registration devices, an existing in the telex code is now known in its structure and therefore information of the punch control LS in the figures supplied, which is not shown in detail. one after the other for punching into the punched tape

The outgoing or incoming official traffic is fed to the strip punch L.

is handled via an exchange transmission AUe , to which, on the one hand, the individual extensions Nst in the charge printer are assigned via connection conversion of the information given in decadic form into sets AW and GW . The during a coded information is omitted and on the other hand of a conversation, in particular a long-distance call, the mechanically operating charge printer is led by an extension Nst , over which the charge pulse pulses transmitted via the exchange line AL would be taken and recorded Switching center of the extension 15 must, billing printer and strip punching system can be installed in a known manner on counters z, which work according to different, so that a control device must be seen advanced before the measurement of the incoming counting pulses through which the stored, or to a special billing information only then on the various facilities. This fee recording device can be given to registration devices if all of them automatically averages all of the information required to determine the 20 registration devices for recording the information fees, such as number functions. The basic mode of operation of the calling and called subscriber, the number of this control device ST , is explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 charge units during the call, date. All for an understanding of the invention, time, etc. This information is stored in the necessary individual parts and circuits are the separate facilities. Thus, examples omitted half 25 clarity, game, the fee Eini characteristics in fees At the end of a call, the toll memory GS, the called party number detection means characterized by the Amtsüberin the memory device WS and the number of transmission A Ue started, that in the device for of the calling subscriber in the device for subscriber identification TF a contact ν closed subscriber identification TF is stored. Fees- 30 will. This speaks in the control device ST memory GS and dial memory WS are the official relay Al to. By closing the contacts α 11 transmission AUe assigned, while the partial and α 12 on the one hand the strip puncher L and subscriber determination TF several subscriber lines of the charge printer Dr are started by the relays TL and several office transmissions AUe trains AnI and An2 are energized, and on the other hand in is arranged. The charge units recorded by the charge memory GS (not shown in more detail) in the devices are expediently excited by the charge memory GS and the subscriber fixed by a further device U directly into monetary value TF switching means G and T , converted by the information. In addition, in not sending out the stored information! the shown, but known way additional Ini- subscriber identification TF and the charge memory formations, such as the day and time, are stored at the end of the Ge 40 GS both for the charge printer Dr and for the call. Strip punch S is initiated. After admission and

This information is recorded in a manner known per se of this recorded information at the end of the call, one after the other, is taken from the charge printer Dr and from the storage device and sent to the control device for permanent recording on a print strip punch L "ready" messages. 45 device ST is given in such a way that this printing device is preceded by a further device registration devices in each case "ready" contacts fl DrS , through which the printing device or f2 are closed. This speaks in the is controlled. Instead of this printing device control device ST the relay Rl, which in addition to this, a strip punch L can be used by closing the contacts r 11 and rl2, which is capable of receiving the same information 50 switching means X and Y on the one hand as the Printing facility. In order to be able to make the transmission AUe effective as well as in the evaluation of the charge information according to the memory device from which the next punch card information is to be issued in the present systems, a strip example of the dial memory is used WS. With the activation punch L used, which in itself is known in the telex 55 of the official transmission A Ue at the same time the free technology. With known means, the device for the subscriber party can be connected from such a punched tape to the punched position TF and the charge memory GS, from which information was taken fully automatically in punch cards around the recorded information, and accordingly initiated a fully automatic one. As a result, these storage devices are made available for billing. 60 for receiving the next charge information

The invention now has the task of making a further call, although the reason for recording, the parallel operation of a printing device for the charging information of the last call and a strip punch has not yet ended without any radio call. to ensure malfunctions. The switching means X of the selection memory WS, off

To produce the punched perforated strips, the next information is now requested

the individual pieces of information become individual or group, in turn causes a response through

one after the other to a character receiver Z pulling-closing the contact ζ to the control device

leads, which is present several times, and the offered ST, in which the relay A2 responds, that through

decadal information in the familiar telex Close contacts »21 and a22 analogous to the

code translated. A similar function to the 70 previous versions of the strip punch L and the

Charges printer Dr starts and causes the dial memory WS to send its stored information to the registration devices L and Dr. After this information has been evaluated by both registration devices, the relay R2 of the control device ST is energized by closing the "ready" contacts / 3 and / 4. Both relays R1 and R2 are switched so that they do not influence each other. By closing the contacts21 and r22, on the one hand, the dial memory WS is enabled and, on the other hand, the next memory device, analogous to the previously described mode of operation, is initiated to send out further information or, if no information is required, the entire charge recording device is enabled.

Claims (4)

Patent claims: 1. Charging device for telecommunication systems, in particular telephone ancillary stations, in which the individual charging information is stored separately in devices and is of various types as required! Recording devices for permanent recording are supplied, characterized in that the various recording devices (Dr, L; Fig. 2) are preceded by a common control device (5T), in which switching means (Rl, R2) come into effect when all recording devices (Dr , L) are free to receive further information (contacts fl, f2; f3, / 4), and that this switching means is able to forward the next information stored in the devices (e.g. WS) to the various types of registration devices (Dr, L ) and control the activation of the storage device (e.g. TF, GS) of the previously recorded information. 2. Fee recording device according to claim 1, characterized in that the individual fee information is given directly from the storage devices (TF, GS, WS) to the different types of registration devices (Dr, L). 3. Fee recording device according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the registration device edll fee printer (Dr) and strip punch (L) are used. 4. fee recording device according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the Information on the recording in the strip punch (L) in one of the strip punch's own Code implemented. 1 sheet of drawings © 70i 5 + 9/162 6.