Patent ID: 6094146
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A communication system comprising a primary station and at least one secondary station, the secondary station having support for a facility optionally provided by the system, which support is selectively enabled at the secondary station, the primary station having means for formatting and encoding message data into message code words, means for concatenating an address code word of an addressed secondary station to the message code words, means for providing indicia indicative of the facility in a field contained in at least one of the message code words concatenated with the address code word and transmitting means for transmitting the concatenated address code word, indicia and message code words, and the at least one secondary station having means for determining if the address code word in a message received by said receiving means is one assigned to the secondary station, means responsive to determining that the address code word is one assigned to the secondary station for decoding said indicia and message code words, means for enabling presently disabled support for the facility at the secondary station in response to the received indicia and means for storing the decoded message data.