Patent ID: 9178987
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for interrupting a transmitting device transmitting a call 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 communication channel via the series of channel frames, and the first device inserting a plurality of open channel frame periods on to the 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 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 received at the first device, as a function of the interrupt request, at least one of: