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- Subject: Re: Call Waiting --- A better way of informing the user ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.190408.13313@phillip.edu.au>
- From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:04:08 EST
- References: <11048@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)
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- In article <11048@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
- > One thing that I found difficult to use about Call Waiting is
- > the way that a user is informed of another call. Currently,
- > this is done by the exchange sending a special tone but the
- > problem is the user might miss the tone especially if it is too
- > soft. I am wondering, what if the phones are themselves modified
-
- Ours is - certain members of the family (the same ones that can't program
- the VCR, I might add) don't notice the tone ever. It's very annoying when
- you know someone is home and they won't answer.
-
- > with flash detector circuit. I propose a detector that looks for
- > three consecutive circuit breaks (flash or recall), these breaks
- > are of very short interval, should be even shorter then
- > what the recall button generates. By waiting for three breaks from
- > the exchange, the detector won't confuse that with the user pressing
- > the recall button. Having detected the three breaks, an LED would light
- > up to indicate CW. I think having a detector to detect the tone
- > would make the phones far too expensive and hence my alternative
- > proposal.
-
- A light is a good idea. If you can solve the problem of modems disconnecting
- when the lines emits the "call waiting" tone that would be even better.
-
- >
- > Any comments ?
- >
- > --
- > Anthony Lee (Time Lord Doctor) (These are my opinions !)
- > email: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au voice:+(61)-7-3651204 FAX:+(61)-7-3651999
- > SNAIL: Department Computer Science, The University of Queensland,
- > St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
- --
-
- Adam Eberbach Computer Science student, RMIT. t9114145@phillip.edu.au
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