Direct inward dial telephone number recognition in a land mobile radio system

• US 5,678,176 A
• Filed: 06/10/1994
• Issued: 10/14/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Uniden America Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Original Assignee: Uniden America Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Inventors: Moon, Billy G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BANKS HAROLD, MARSHA DENISE
• Application Number:
  US08/258,531
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 455/15, 455/17, 455/34.1, 455/34.2, 455/33.1, 455/33.4, 455/54.1, 455/56.1, 379/59
• US Class Current: 455/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/08 Trunked mobile radio systems

Abstract

A land mobile radio communication system has a plurality of cell sites, each of which typically has a plurality of repeaters. The over-the-air radio communications between the cell site repeaters and the mobile radios in the system include both a voice component and a data component. The data component is carried as low-frequency subaudible information. Communication channels are provided between the radio users at each site as well as between users at different sites and between mobile radio users and the public telephone network. Within a cell site, the transmitted and received communications are digitized and passed through serial buses in a time multiplex fashion. The digitized voice is transferred between time slots to provide the required switching function. The system includes operational software to provide direct inward dial telephone number recognition, automatic voice prompts for a user entering a new cell, call priority override, fraud control for radio fleets and a dynamic control channel.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a duplex voice communication channel between first and second users in a trunked land mobile radio communication system which has a cell site that includes a plurality of repeaters and each user has a radio with an identification code and certain users have a DID telephone number, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving at said cell site through a first of said repeaters a telephone number which has been transmitted by said first user'"'"'s radio wherein said telephone number is the telephone number for said second user,

determining that said telephone number is a DID telephone number,

selecting one of said identification codes by use of said received DID telephone number,

selecting a second of said repeaters,

transmitting said one unique identification code through said second of said repeaters,

receiving at said cell site through said second repeater from the second user'"'"'s radio a response to said transmission of said one unique identification code, and

establishing a two-way communication channel, within the trunked land mobile radio communication system, between said first and said second repeaters to thereby establish duplex voice communication between the radios for said first and second users.

2. A trunked land mobile radio communication system operable to establish a duplex voice communication channel between first and second users wherein each user has a radio with an identification code and certain users have a DID telephone number, the system comprising:

a cell site,

a plurality of repeaters,

means for receiving at said cell site through a first of said plurality of repeaters a telephone number which has been transmitted by said first user'"'"'s radio wherein the telephone number is said second user'"'"'s telephone number,

means for determining that the telephone number is a DID telephone number,

means for selecting one of said identification codes by use of said received DID telephone number,

means for selecting a second of said repeaters,

means for transmitting said one unique identification code through said second of said repeaters,

and wherein said second repeater is operable to receive a response to said transmission of said one unique identification code from said second user'"'"'s radio, and

means for establishing a two-way communication channel, within the trunked land mobile radio communication system, between said first and said second repeaters to thereby establish duplex voice communication between the radios for said first and second users.