Method of muting a non-speaking cellular telephone caller participating in a conference call
First Claim
1. A wireless station set comprisinga microphone,a facility for requesting muting of signals received via the microphone,a transmitter section that generates and transmits a control message over a wireless link in response to a muting request, said control message being operative for causing a base station that receives the control message to output to a transmission facility predetermined signals in place of signals thereafter received from the wireless station.
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Abstract
A facility is provided in wireless communications system which causes a base station to substitute predetermined signals for speech and/or noise signals that are received from a wireless station that has entered a muting request, in which the predetermined signals, may be, for example, silence.
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1. A wireless station set comprising
a microphone, a facility for requesting muting of signals received via the microphone, a transmitter section that generates and transmits a control message over a wireless link in response to a muting request, said control message being operative for causing a base station that receives the control message to output to a transmission facility predetermined signals in place of signals thereafter received from the wireless station.
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6. A wireless base station comprising
an antenna for receiving information from a wireless station, and a receiver connected to the antenna for processing signals received from the wireless station and outputting the processed signals to an output for transmission to an intended recipient, said receiver being operable, responsive to such received signals characterizing a request to enter a muting mode, to substitute predetermined signals for signals thereafter received from the wireless station and output the predetermined signals for transmission to the intended recipient.
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11. A wireless communications system comprising
at least one wireless station set operative for transmitting voice and control messages over a wireless link, in which such control messages include a request to mute transmission from said wireless station set, and at least one base station operative, responsive to receipt of a muting request from the wireless station set to output to a transmission facility predetermined signals in place of voice messages thereafter received from the wireless station.
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