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Queued community repeater mobile

  • US 4,553,263 A
  • Filed: 12/22/1983
  • Issued: 11/12/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A plurality of remote units each comprising a transmitter and a receiver and adapted to transmit and receive messages within a predetermined fleet of such remote units operating on a single communications channel shared by a plurality of other remote unit fleets and regulated by a central control station which assigns the single communications channel to a requesting remote unit fleet, each message having at least one transmission on the single communications channel, each remote unit comprising:

  • means for requesting service from the central control station on the single communications channel in response to a control signal received from the central station during a period of time following a served remote unit transmission;

    means for receiving a grant of service to the predetermined remote unit fleet transmitted by the central control station on the single communications channel in response to said service request;

    means for enabling the transmitter of the requesting remote unit in response to said grant of service and for enabling the receiver of each of the other remote units in the predetermined fleet;

    means for indicating an end-of-transmission condition at the conclusion of a real time transmission of the requesting remote unit to inform the central control station of said conclusion and stimulate said control signal from the central control station;

    means for disabling the receiver of each remote unit of the predetermined fleet in response to the central control station recognizing an end-of-transmission condition; and

    means for inhibiting the transmitter of each remote unit of the predetermined fleet if no additional transmissions are made by the predetermined fleet following said received control signal.

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