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Packet switch to provide code division, multiple access cellular service

  • US 5,438,565 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1993
  • Issued: 08/01/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a wireless telecommunications network, a system for providing connectionless access for wireless communication between cell sites and the PSTN, said wireless communication using packets in a first format, said network comprising:

  • a plurality of cell site termination means connected to each of said cell sites for creating and reading packets used in said wireless communication, each of said cell site termination means including means for prepending a destination address on said created packets;

    a plurality of PSTN termination means connected to said PSTN, each of said PSTN termination means having means responsive to said destination address for receiving said created packet and translating said packets from said first format into a form used in said PSTN, said PSTN terminating means also having means responsive to receipt of data in a form used in said PSTN for translating said data into packets in said first format and prepending a destination address on said packets indicative of said cell site termination means;

    said network being configured such said all translation into and out of said first format for a given wireless call is performed at one PSTN termination means in said network; and

    packet switching means connected between each said cell site termination means and each said PSTN termination means responsive to said prepended destination addresses for transporting said packets between said cell site termination means and said one PSTN termination means to connect said wireless call to said PSTN, so that said one PSTN termination means remains the same for the duration of said call.

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