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Abstract

Embedding one or a plurality of wireless switches into a switching system. The wireless switches are both physically and logically integrated into the switching system. The switching system performs the complex switching operations. Physically, each wireless switch emulates link interfaces in its connections to the switching system's communications control and data media. Logically, each of the wireless switch units communicates with a control processor controlling the operations of the switching system as if each of the wireless switches was a set of individual station sets. Each wireless switch is assigned a set of wireless sets. Each of the wireless sets has a unique telephone number which the control processor of the switching system identifies with a physical position on the communication media. Upon receipt of an incoming call for a particular wireless set, the control processor directs the voice and control information of the call to the wireless switch that is emulating what the control processor believes is a station set attached to the switching system. If the wireless set is registered on a base station attached to the assigned wireless switch, then the call is completed via the assigned wireless switch and the base station with the wireless switch directly handling the communication between the wireless set and the control processor. If the wireless set is registered on a base station connected to another wireless switch other than the assigned wireless switch, the assigned wireless switch receives the call control information from the control processor communicates this information to the other wireless switch. The assigned wireless switch then continues to relay all control information being exchanged between the control processor and the other wireless switch.

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