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Two-way telephone and two-way paging service on the same wireless infrastructure

  • US 6,522,879 B2
  • Filed: 02/16/1996
  • Issued: 02/18/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A wireless communication system conforming to the North American Advance Mobile Phone Standards (AMPS) providing both a two-way telephone service and a two-way paging service using the same transmission and reception equipment and the same communication channel at a single transmission rate, comprising:

  • one or more AMPS base stations, each serving a region and wireless telephones located within the region;

    a wireless switch connected to each of the AMPS base stations for call delivery from a calling party to a called party'"'"'s AMPS wireless telephone, said wireless switch comprising means for distinguishing whether the called party is a two-way telephone subscriber or a two-way paging subscriber;

    means for providing a two-way telephone communication indefinitely between the calling party and the called party until one of the parties hangs up, when the called party is a two-way telephone subscriber;

    said two-way telephone communication means in an AMPS wireless communication system including a message field; and

    means for providing a two-way paging communication;

    wherein the means for two-way paging communication is implemented using the AMPS message field present in the means for providing two-way telephone communication.

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