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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1996
Daniel Richard Tayloe, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Nathan West Miller, Tempe, AZ (US);
Robert Thomas Frederick, Chandler, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A communication system (100) includes satellites (102,104) and a mobile exchange unit (MXU) (120) for exchanging communication information with users. A satellite (102) generates synchronous timing frames requiring users operating through an MXU (120) to anticipate timing and frequency requirements to participate in communications. An MXU (120) must advance transmissions to a satellite (102) to insure transmissions arrive at satellite (102) within the proper synchronous receive window. Such advanced transmissions by MXU (120) interfere with reception of a ring alert/page transmission (130) which contains the location of broadcast channels (86) designating an incoming call or page data transmissions. The MXU (120) alternatively extracts a broadcast channel location from a candidate hand-off list being transmitted by a satellite (102) to in-use transceivers (310). The MXU 120 then distributes the location of the broadcast channel to those transceivers (310) presently not in-use.