Spin-off meeting by the Gleaners
Our proposition of using the same mobile phone number for plural mobile
phone handsets
Glass Snake: Hello! Since one of our members worries if our work is helpful to our
everyday life, we'd like to discuss about a subject more directly concerned
with our life than the universe matter.
Stamp Pony: I'm glad to hear that. The worrying member is me.
Puzzle Sheep: The
number of mobile phone handsets is increasing day by day all over the world. Furthermore
many subscribers want a second and even a third handsets
for internet connection or for the reserved one. When we have plural handsets
we are allotted plural mobile phone numbers now.
Stamp Pony: If the
number of subscribers who have plural handsets is increased, we will be
overwhelmed with the mobile phone numbers.
Robot: Although androids won't be confused no matter how many mobile phone numbers
are, the subject of this spin-off meeting is to propose a method of easing
the increase of mobile phone numbers to the authorities of the communication
world. We had better not ask G. Snake if he knows the authorities.
Glass Snake: It's none of your business. One solution is to use the same mobile phone
numbers for plural handsets. For example, as shown in Fig. 1(A), a businessman
B has a first handset 10A and a second handset 10B. And his child C has
a handset 10C, this is also a third handset of the businessman B.
Here,
the mobile phone numbers of the handsets 10A, 10B, and 10C are the same, we
refer to the same number as the number TN1 (refer to Fig. 1(B)). Of course, the
device numbers of the handsets 10A, 10B, and 10C are different, we refer to the
device numbers as the numbers DN1, DN8, and DN9, respectively (refer to Fig. 1(B)).
The number TN1 is open to the public, but the device numbers are recorded only
in memories of mobile base stations 6A, 6B, etc.
This means that the mobile base stations can discriminate among the handsets
10A, 10B, and 10C, while the public can't discriminate among them.
Puzzle Sheep: I
think maybe the first handset 10A can be used as an ordinary handset and other
handsets 10B and 10C are set not to respond to phone calls by the mobile base
stations.
Glass Snake: That's right. Although the handsets 10B and 10C are set not to respond
to the call by the mobile phone number TN1, the handsets 10B and 10C can
make a phone call to another handset (including the handset 10A) and connect
with the internet 4 at will. If the first handset 10A is lost or broken,
the businessman B can ask the mobile base stations to set the handset 10B
to respond to phone calls.
Robot: Since the handsets 10B and 10C don't have to answer phone calls, the handsets
10B and 10C don't need to send their own position information signals to
the mobile base stations. Thus the quantity of the signal processing in
the mobile base stations is also eased.
Stamp Pony: However
what shall I do when I want to respond to phone calls using the handset 10B or
10C？
Puzzle Sheep: Then
you have only to buy a new handset as usual and ask for a new mobile phone
number. The problem is, if the handsets 10B and 10C are used in some illegal
activities or not？
Glass Snake: On the contrary, since the handsets 10B and 10C don't respond to phone
calls and are related to the handset 10A or the subscriber (the businessman
B), the handsets 10B and 10C are not suitable for other activities than
personal use.
Robot: I shall
ask you to close the meeting now.
All: We are
those who live on a spherical surface in four-dimensional space, that is, we
are spherical-surfacelings!
We
are the Gleaners!
Robot: In Walter
Cronkite accent!
All: Good evening, we are the Gleaners! And that's the way the universe is!
Robot: You, self-righteous
spherical-surfacelings! Dismissed!
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