Patent ID: 6064891
Filing Date: 2000-05-16
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A device for connecting a telephone switch to a fixed telephone network via a plurality of fixed radiotelephone terminals of a radiotelephone network, a plurality of user terminals being connected to said telephone switch, said device including a plurality of fixed radiotelephone terminals each including means for communicating with said radiotelephone network, said means including a processor, each of the fixed radiotelephone terminals being in one only of the following states:listening out for terminal seek messages, orin telephone communication with the radiotelephone network, oravailable, a terminal being considered to be available even if it is executing a location or authentication procedure,wherein the device further includes coordinator means connected to each of the processors of the fixed radiotelephone terminals to control dynamically allocation of said terminals to telephone connections set up between the fixed telephone network and the user terminals,wherein each fixed radiotelephone terminal includes means for indicating its status to the coordinator means, andwherein the coordinator means include means for activating at any time one only of the fixed radiotelephone terminals chosen from those available at the time concerned to listen out for terminal seek messages.