Patent ID: 7283821

Claim:
A mobile station comprising: a) a first wireless interface to access a licensed wireless communication network comprising a mobile switching center (MSC); b) a second wireless interface to access an unlicensed wireless communication network via an unlicensed wireless base station using an unlicensed radio frequency; c) a third interface to communicate with an unlicensed wireless network controller communicatively coupled to the base station via a broadband network; and d) circuits for handling a set of unlicensed radio resource (RR) messages transmitted over the third interface to support assigning a voice bearer channel for the mobile station to access voice bearer services of the licensed wireless communication system via the unlicensed wireless communication system, wherein the set of unlicensed RR messages includes: an activate channel message received at the mobile station from the unlicensed network controller, said activate channel message sent from the unlicensed network controller to the mobile station in response to receiving an assignment request from the (MSC), said activate channel message triggering establishment of the voice bearer channel for the mobile station.