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Infrastructure equipment in a wireless communication system serves different service providers

  • US 5,530,945 A
  • Filed: 08/31/1993
  • Issued: 06/25/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a communication system administered by a service provider including wireless telephones, radio frequency base stations that provide wireless communication channels for the wireless telephones, and a switched telecommunication office that supports communication channels, the improvement comprising:

  • wireless network controller (WNC) means for interconnecting said communication channels supported by said switched telecommunications office and wireless communication channels, said WNC means receiving requests from said wireless telephones via said base stations for access to a service communication channel;

    a single database means separate from and coupled to said WNC means for assigning each wireless telephone to one of a plurality of independent groups of tenants, said database means also determining whether a wireless telephone making said request for access to a service communication channel is a member of the group of tenants supported by said base station that received the request based on records controlled by the service provider and stored in the database means for each wireless telephone;

    said WNC means, in response to said database means determining that a wireless telephone making a request for access to a service communication channel is a member of the group of tenants supported by said base station that received the request, interconnecting a communication channel from said telecommunications office with a wireless communication channel provided by the base station associated with the requesting wireless telephone, whereby the WNC means is capable of serving a plurality of groups of tenants and wireless telephone service is based on tenant group membership.

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