Patent ID: 6522879
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A wireless communication system conforming to the North American Advance Mobile Phone Standards (AMPS) providing both a two-way telephone service and a two-way paging service using the same transmission and reception equipment and the same communication channel at a single transmission rate, comprising:one or more AMPS base stations, each serving a region and wireless telephones located within the region; a wireless switch connected to each of the AMPS base stations for call delivery from a calling party to a called party's AMPS wireless telephone, said wireless switch comprising means for distinguishing whether the called party is a two-way telephone subscriber or a two-way paging subscriber; means for providing a two-way telephone communication indefinitely between the calling party and the called party until one of the parties hangs up, when the called party is a two-way telephone subscriber; said two-way telephone communication means in an AMPS wireless communication system including a message field; and means for providing a two-way paging communication; wherein the means for two-way paging communication is implemented using the AMPS message field present in the means for providing two-way telephone communication.