PAGING TECHNIQUE FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME

摘要

In a distributed communication system such as a personal handyphone system, when a new call must be connected through a cell station, the PNC unit associated with the cell station checks to see if the cell station is fully loaded. If so, portable telephones currently having calls connected through that cell station are checked to see if they can reconnect to a different cell station. If so, they are directed to reconnect, thereby freeing a space on the target cell station so that the new call can be connected. This technique is useful for incoming calls from a wireline network, outgoing calls from a portable telephone, and handoffs of a roaming portable telephone.