Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1994-11-08
1996-07-16
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
370 857, 34082544, 455 311, 455 74, H04Q 714, H04J 316
Patent
active
055374158
ABSTRACT:
A mobile communications system in accordance with the invention comprises primary and secondary wireless digital communications networks. The system also comprises a wireless mobile messaging unit. The primary wireless digital communications network operates on a first communications channel using a reserved time slot protocol having discrete time slots reserved for data transmissions to the mobile messaging unit. The secondary wireless digital communications network operates on a second communications channel using a continuous downlink protocol under which data transmissions to the mobile messaging unit might take place at any time. The wireless mobile messaging unit has channel selection logic operatively connected to tune the mobile messaging unit to the first communications channel during the discrete time slots and to the second communications channel during other times. This allows the mobile unit to communicate concurrently with both of the primary and secondary digital communication networks, while requiring only a single radio receiver or transceiver.
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Miller J. Mark
Voth David W.
Microsoft Corporation
Olms Douglas W.
Phillips Matthew C.
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