Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1995-07-31
2000-08-15
Chin, Wellington
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455430, 455450, 455434, 455432, 455436, 455438, 3408253, H04Q 720, H04Q 722, H04Q 736
Patent
active
061049263
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for performing call handoff in a mobile communication system. The system is employed on commercial aircraft and enables cans to be transferred between different traffic service channels in order to continue and/or improve communications. In a conservation handoff scenario, user service channels are transferred between partially utilied traffic service channels resulting in unused traffic service channels that are released, thus freeing more traffic service channels for use by other aircraft. In a seizure handoff scenario, signal quality on one traffic service channel has begun to deteriorate prompting a call handoff wherein a call on the deteriorating traffic service channel is transferred to an unused user service channel on another traffic service channel already in use aboard the aircraft, thus allowing users to continue their calls. In a reservation handoff situation the aircraft equipment responds to a deterioration of signal quality and transfers all calls to another traffic service channel on a different radio base station allowing user's to continue their calls.
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Hogg William E.
Merel Roger E.
Chin Wellington
Ferguson Keith
GTE Airfone Incorporated
Suchyta Leonard Charles
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