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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony K Sharpe, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Advantra International N.V., Ieper, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082544 ; 34082547 ; 34082507 ; 455 381 ; 455 382 ; 455 39 ; 379 561 ;
Abstract
A method of transmitting messages in a communication system including a primary station and at least one secondary station, the secondary station being identifiable by an address code word, the primary station transmitting messages signals in the format of the address code word of an addressed secondary station concatenated with a plurality of message code words, wherein the primary station indicates the provision of an optional facility which it can provide to a secondary station by transmitting indicia representative of the facility in a field contained in at least one of the message code words concatenated with the secondary station's address code word.