Patent ID: 8605650
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for interrupting a transmitting device transmitting a call from a first device to one or more other devices via a base station in a communication system, the method comprising: a first device encoding call information of a call to be transmitted into a series of channel frames; the first device operating in a transmitting mode and transmitting the call on a first communication channel between the first device and the base station via the series of channel frames, and the first device inserting a plurality of open channel frame periods on to the first communication channel during transmission of the call by selectively dropping, instead of transmitting, a corresponding predetermined plurality of the channel frames or portions of the channel frames; the first device switching to a receiving mode during one of the inserted open channel frame periods and determining, while in the receiving mode, whether an interrupt request has been transmitted from a second device to the repeater and has subsequently been repeated on a second communication channel by the base station and received at the first device; and responsive to the first device determining that an interrupt request has been transmitted from the second device and has been received at the first device via the base station, as a function of the interrupt request, at least one of: