
US Patent No: 4,568,800
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Multi-channel access (MCA) radio telephone system
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Feb 4, 1986
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Mar 28, 1984
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06/594,672
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Abstract
A multi-channel access (MCA) radio telephone system completes calls from conventional telephone systems over a plurality of shared radio channels to a base station serving a plurality of substations connected to a second telephone set. The MCA radio telephone system provides a method for clearing calls after they are completed. The method comprising the steps of: (a) detecting the hang-up at the first and conventional set involved in the clearing call; (b) maintaining the D.C. loop of the subscriber line to the first and conventional telephone set in response to the detection of an on-hook signal and returning the radio channel to an idle and waiting state; (c) detecting the hang-up of the second telephone set which is served by the base station re-establishing a radio channel between the base station and the substation involved in the call being cleared; (d) sending a release signal from the clearing substation through the re-established radio channel to the base station; and (e) opening the D.C. loop to the first and conventional telephone set in response to the release signal and placing the re-established radio channel into an idle and waiting state.
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| Patent Info | (Count) | # Cites | Year |
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| 4,281,413 Multichannel radio telephone system | 21 | 1979 | |
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| 4,400,585 Method and apparatus for automatically attempting to seize a radio channel in a multichannel communication system | 53 | 1981 | |