Patent ID: 6163692
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
In a telecommunication network including a plurality of mobile telephones and a conference bridge for establishing voice conference connections between a plural number of the plurality of mobile telephones when communication linked with the conference bridge, the improvement being a connection recovering, mobile, telephonic, voice conferencing system, comprising:means for detecting disconnection of a conference communication link between any one mobile telephone of the plural number mobile telephones and the conference bridge, wherein any one mobile telephone having means for actuating a general end call function to generate a general call termination signal;means responsive to the detecting means for sensing that any one mobile telephone is participating in a voice conference;means responsive to the sensing means and actuation of the general end function to also automatically transmit a conference termination signal when the general call function is actuated while the mobile telephone is participating in a voice conference; andmeans responsive to the sensing means for automatically establishing reconnection of the conference communication link between the one mobile telephone and the conference bridge upon disconnection of the conference communication link without detection of the general call termination signal.