Patent · US Expired

Operating a trunked communication system in transmission and message trunked modes

US5864762A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 1996
Grant dateJan 26, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 22, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L25/06
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A digitally trunked radio repeater system provides substantial improvements in timeliness and reliability. The mobile radio transceivers transmit channel requests on the control channel at 9600 bps. The mobile transceiver switches to a working channel in response to an assignment message received on the control channel. Message and transmission trunking capabilities are both present so as to maximize working channel usage without compromising channel access for high priority communications. Radios select between message and transmission trunking based on over-the-air signaling. During transmission trunking, called and calling receivers return to the control channel after each transmission (and called transceivers may be inhibited from transmitting) but grant higher priority to calls from the other transceivers being communicated with to ensure continuity over an entire conversation.

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