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Radio telephone system control apparatus and method

US4802200A · kind A · utility

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34Claims
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Filing dateAug 26, 1986
Grant dateJan 31, 1989
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Expiry dateAug 26, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M1/72508
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling a radio telephone system of the type wherein a connection between a wired telephone channel and a plurality of radio telephone handsets is controlled by a single base station connected to the wired telephone channel, a ring signal through the wired telephone channel is detected, a paging signal is sent to the radio telephone handsets from the base station when the ring signal is detected and a paging response signal is sent to the base station from the radio telephone handset in response to the paging signal. Further a channel designating signal is sent to the radio telephone handset in accordance with the paging response signal, a radio channel of the base station is switched to a radio channel corresponding to the channel designating signal, the radio channel of the radio telephone handset is switched to a radio channel corresponding to the channel designating signal, and a speech channel is established between a radio telephone handset responding to the paging signal and the wired telephone channel.

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