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Radio communication network and method for unobstrusive call interception via data duplication

US5710971A · kind A · utility

15Cited by
5References
17Claims
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Filing dateDec 18, 1995
Grant dateJan 20, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 18, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/1856
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A digital cellular telecommunication network (30) uses transcoders (50) which vocode voice using a maximal lossy compression algorithm which conserves spectrum usage. A call path for an intercepted call is looped from an outer space satellite (32) network into a terrestrial gateway (34). Compressed call data for each of two half-calls in this call path are duplicated at any of the network nodes and inserted into the opposing half-call. In addition, the compressed call data are decompressed in a gateway transcoder (50), combined in a conference bridge (90), and routed to a monitoring center (60). A subscriber unit (36), a second device (48), and the monitoring center (60) all receive call data which has experienced only one compression/decompression cycle.

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