Patent ID: 6449483
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A wireless telephone system for providing a subscriber at a mobile subscriber station with communication connections to a telephone switching system, using a single telephone number to serve a plurality of mobile subscriber stations, comprising:means for assigning a plurality of mobile subscriber stations, each of which has assigned thereto a unique equipment identification, a single telephone number on said telephone switching system, said single telephone number being the exclusive access to said plurality of mobile subscriber stations via said telephone switching system; means for storing data, representative of said unique equipment identification for each of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations served by said single telephone number, in a memory; means, responsive to receipt of a service request for one of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations served by said single telephone number, for retrieving said stored data representative of said unique equipment identification for all of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations served by said single telephone number; means for determining an availability of all of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations served by said single telephone number; and means for servicing said service request for said one of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations only if said determining means determines that all other of said plurality of mobile subscriber stations served by said single telephone number are idle.