Arrangement for registering call metering impulses in a communication system

Claim 1

AN ARRANGEMENT FOR THE REGISTERING, ON TELECOMMUNICATION LINES WITH INTERPOSED CONNECTING DEVICES SUCH AS THE FIRST GROUP SELECTOR, SIGNAL PULSES ALLOCATED TO ONE OF A PLURALITY OF SUCH LINES, SUCH AS CHARGE PULSES IN TELEPHONE INSTALLATIONS, IN WHICH THE SIGNAL PULSES APPEAR IN RANDOM SEQUENCE BUT WITH DEFINITE TEMPORAL MINIMUM SPACING, AND FOR STORING AN INDICATION OF SUCH SIGNAL PULSES IN A CENTRAL REGISTERING DEVICE AS A SIGNAL ALLOCATED TO THE APPROPRIATE LINE, THROUGH REPEATED OR PERIODIC READING OF THE CONNECTING DEVICES CONNECTED WITH THE LINES TO BE MONITORED BY READING MEMBERS RESPONSIVE TO THE SIGNAL PULSES, INDIVIDUALLY APPEARING THEREAT, COMPRISING AN IDENTIFYING DEVICE, INDIVIDUAL STORERS FOR THE RESPECTIVE CONNECTING DEVICES OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO RESPECTIVE READING MEMBERS AND SAID IDENTIFYING DEVICE, FOR RECEIPT, AT THE BEGINING OF A CONNECTION BUILD-UP, OF THE CALL NUMBER OF THE SUBSCRIBER BUILDING UP THE CONNECTION, AS ASCERTAINED BY SAID IDENTIFYING DEVICE, THE CENTRAL REGISTERING DEVICE HAVING A STORER AND A CONTROL DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO A SIGNAL PULSE THEREAT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NUMBER STORED IN SAID INDIVIDUAL STORERS TO INITIATE STORAGE IN THE CENTRAL STORER OF SAID CENTRAL REGISTERING OF AN INDICATION OF SUCH A SIGNAL PULSE AS A SIGNAL ALLOCATED TO THE APPROPRIATE LINE, AND THEREBY EFFECT THE REGISTERING THEREOF.