SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING WHEN TO ANSWER INCOMING PACKET DATA CALLS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for determining when to answer an incoming packetized data call generated from a base station in a wireless communication network. The system includes a communication device (MT2), which interfaces with the wireless communication network, and a terminal device (TE2), which is electronically coupled to the communication device and is capable of transmitting and receiving packetized data. The communications device (MT2) answers (530) the incoming packetized data call from the base station in response to detecting a control signal or control information indicating the ready-state of the terminal device. This terminal device ready-state indicator may include control signals such as a high-state data transmit ready signal or the low-state to high-state transition of the data transmit ready signal after a ring-indicator signal has been activated to alert a subscriber of the incoming call. the ready-state indicator may also include control information such as a point-to-point protocol packetized data indicator flag, embedded in the data stream generated from the terminal device, or other information indicating that a point-to-point protocol packet was sent by the terminal device.