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Synchronizing a telecommunications connection in a mobile communications system

US6144656A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 1997
Grant dateNov 7, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02D30/70
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for synchronizing a telecommunications connection in a mobile communications system including a database, at least one base station communicating with mobile stations on system channels which include control channels and traffic channels. Mobile stations communicate with other mobile stations using the base station and the system channels or communicate directly using a direct mode channel. Time slots and frame structures of the system channels are synchronized with time slots and frame structures of the direct mode channels.

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