Wireless telephone system

• US 5,995,844 A
• Filed: 06/20/1997
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fukuda, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GANTT, ALAN T
• Application Number:
  US08/879,768
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 455/462, 455/465, 455/460, 455/403
• US Class Current: 455/462
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

In a wireless telephone system, a wireless section of the base station for informing talking mobile wireless terminals of a connection request through a first frequency and for transmitting/receiving control data to a mobile wireless terminal which is in a reception waiting state through a second frequency during talking between the mobile wireless terminals is further simply constituted. Synchronous information is transmitted from the base station through the first frequency, and the first and the second mobile wireless terminals which have received the synchronous information perform a bi-directional and direct talking in a synchronized manner with the base station on the basis of the synchronous information. In this way, the base station is able to ensure a free period which is allocated to switching of the oscillation frequency of a frequency-selecting oscillators and to transmission/reception of the control data by using the second frequency, in addition to a period for transmitting the synchronous information through the first frequency.

Claims

1. A wireless telephone system using time division multiple access, said system including a base station connected to a public telephone network and a plurality of mobile wireless terminals for communicating with the base station, said system being for communicating stated data between terminals of said plurality of mobile wireless terminals, wherein said plurality of mobile wireless terminals include a first wireless mobile terminal and a second wireless mobile terminal and a bi-directional communication is performed between said first wireless mobile terminal and said second wireless mobile terminal, wherein

said base station includes means for transmitting synchronous information at a first period to said first and second mobile wireless terminals and said base station causes said first and second mobile wireless terminals to synchronize with said station on the basis of the transmitted synchronous information, a frequency generator, and means for transmitting and for receiving control data at a second period and a third period, respectively, that are not adjacent to each other or to said first period for providing a time for a first and a second carrier frequency generated by said frequency generator to be switched, whereby said synchronous information is transmitted using said first carrier frequency and said control data is transmitted using said second carrier frequency,

said first mobile wireless terminal includes means for directly transmitting said first data to said second mobile wireless terminal, and

said second mobile wireless terminal includes means for directly transmitting second data to said first mobile wireless terminal.

2. The wireless telephone system according to claim 1, wherein

said first mobile wireless terminal transmits said first data at a fourth period that is not adjacent to said first period, and

said second mobile wireless terminal transmits said second data at a fifth period that is not adjacent to said first and fourth periods.

3. The wireless telephone system according to claim 1, wherein

said synchronous information and said first and second data are transmitted and received at a timing of a time slot that has been set for each stated period.

4. The wireless telephone system according to claim 1, wherein

said first and second mobile wireless terminals concurrently receive said synchronous information from said base station so as to synchronize with said base station.

5. The wireless telephone system according to claim 1, wherein

said second mobile wireless terminal includes means for receiving said synchronous information so as to synchronize with said base station, transmitting said second data to said first mobile wireless terminal after synchronizing, and causing said first mobile wireless terminal to synchronize with said base station on the basis of the second data.

6. The wireless telephone system according to claim 1, wherein

said first mobile wireless terminal includes means for receiving said synchronous information so as to synchronize with said base station, transmitting said first data to said second mobile wireless terminal after synchronizing, and causing said second mobile wireless terminal to synchronize with said base station on the basis of the first data.