Patent ID: 6138030
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A communications system for providing multiple services and hold capability of at least one service, the communications system having a mobile switching center and a dispatch control processor for communicating with a plurality of mobile subscriber units, the mobile switching center providing telephone interconnect call capability between mobile subscriber units and a public switched telephone network, the dispatch control processor providing dispatch call capability between the mobile subscriber units, the communication system comprising:a base site controller operably coupled to the mobile switching centera transceiver site operably coupled to the base site controller and to the dispatch control processor, and having a radio transceiver for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from the mobile subscriber units;a hold processor operably coupled to the base site controller and the mobile switching center, for receiving and holding a telephone interconnect call in progress by at least one of the mobile subscriber units.