Radio channel search system

• US 4,921,464 A
• Filed: 03/11/1988
• Issued: 05/01/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ito, Koichi, Sasaki, Isao
• Primary Examiner(s): Orsino, Joseph A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Scutch, II, Frank M.
• Application Number:
  US07/167,232
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 455/34, 455/54, 455/56, 455/58, 455/68, 455/166, 455/343, 455/127, 455/266, 340/825.5, 379/61, 379/62, 379/64
• US Class Current: 455/512
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72511 Searching for available channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/73 Battery saving arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/733 with a plurality of base stations connected to a plurality of lines for selection in cordless PBX H04W84/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/563 of the wireless resources
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A communication system is disclosed in which a speech path is selectively set up between a master station and mobile units through a plurality of radio channels. The number data of a limited number of priority channels is set in memory devices which are installed respectively in the master station and each mobile unit. In a receive-ready mode, in each station and units, the priority channels are intermittenly subjected to the receive search. In other periods than the receive search periods, no power is supplied to the receive circuit of each station and units.

Claims

1. A radio channel search system in use with a communication system based on a multi-channel access system in which a plurality of moving units and at least one master station arranged as a counterpart of each of said moving units are provided, a plurality of radio channels are assigned to each of said plurality of moving units, in a speech mode the moving unit selects an idle channel from those radio channels, to set up a radio communication path between said moving unit and said master station;

wherein said master station and each moving unit include means for storing data of numbers representing priority channels which are selected from all radio channels, with the number of the priority channels being smaller than that of the radio channels;

control means for controlling a receive-ready mode by using said priority channel, and connection control means coupled to said priority channel numbers storing means and said control means, and wherein in the receive-ready mode, said control means sequentially and repeatedly makes the reception search of said selected priority channels according to the priority channel numbers stored in said priority channel number storing means and step supply of electric power to a receiving circuit section during the period that no reception search is performed, said connection control means detects in idle channel by said receive search when a calling moving unit sends a speech path formation request to a called moving unit in the receive-ready mode, and make a connection control between one of said units and said master station by using said idle channel, and when receiving a connection request in said receive search mode, said connection control means stop the receive search operation, and a predetermined connection control between one of said units and said master station by a radio channel through which said connection request is received.

2. The radio channel search system according to claim 1, wherein said priority channel memory means stores selected priority channels every time the supply of the electric power is started.

3. The radio channel search system according to claim 1, wherein said priority channel memory means stores new data representing numbers of new priority channels selected by using a random number when the moving unit is in a battery charge mode or in a busy mode, and transfers the new data to a corresponding station and units to store them therein.