Cellular telephone system which increases efficiency of reserved channel usage
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJey Veerasamy
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Abstract
A wireless communication system, such as a cellular communication system prioritizes calls to have a low, regular or high priority. The communication channels provided by a base station are divided into regular channels and reserved channels. All calls are connected on regular channels until the regular channels are all full. When the regular channels are all full, then regular priority calls are connected as low priority calls or not at all. If a regular priority call is connected as a low priority call it is connected via a reserved channel. Once all the reserved channels are full, then a high priority call is attempted to be connected by dropping a low priority call and using the reserved channel that the low priority call was using.
Claims9
A wireless communication network comprising:
- a first mobile communication device having a regular priority;
- a second mobile communication device having a high priority;
- a first base station providing a plurality of regular priority channels and at least one high priority channel for communicating with said first mobile communication device, said base station providing said first mobile communication device a high priority channel when all of said plurality of regular priority channels are in use, wherein said base station drops communication with said first mobile communication device on said high priority channel and provides said second mobile communication device said high priority channel when there are no other channels available, and wherein said base station communicates to a user of said first mobile communication device that the first mobile communication device is being provided communication on a high priority channel that can be ended if a high priority mobile communication device needs to use said priority channel.
A wireless communication system programmed to prioritize calls on a plurality of communication channels, said wireless communication system comprising:
- a first base station having a first plurality of channels for communicating with a first wireless device and at least one first high priority channel for communicating with a second wireless device, said second wireless device being designated to communicate via high priority calls;
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- a second base station having a second plurality of channels for communicating with said first wireless device and at least one second high priority channel for communicating with said second wireless device , said first wireless device communicating with said first base station via at least one first high priority channel, and wherein said first base station communicates to a user of said first wireless device that the first wireless device is being provided communication on said at least one first high priority channel that can be ended if a high priority wireless device needs to use said at least one first high priority channel.
A method for prioritizing access to wireless communication channels in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system comprising a base station for connecting calls between said base station and a first and second mobile communication device, said method for prioritizing comprising the steps of:
- attempting to connect a regular priority call between said first mobile communication device and said base station;
- determining that there are no regular priority channels available to carry a regular priority call;
- informing the user of said first mobile communication device that there are no regular priority channels available and that the user can connect using a via low priority call;
- initiating a low priority call via a reserved channel between said first mobile communication device and said base station;
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- informing a user of said first mobile communication device that the first first mobile communication device is being provided communication on said reserved channel that can be ended if a high priority priority mobile communication device device needs to use said reserved channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.