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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1997
Janne Tarkiainen, Espoo, FI;
Tapio Paavonen, Saarijärvi, FI;
Reino Talarmo, Riihimäki, FI;
Nokia Telecommunications Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method for allocating emergency speech items in a mobile communication system comprising a network infrastructure (BS), a first subscriber station (MS,) connected to it, and at least one other subscriber station (MS,, MS,), the method comprising maintaining a group call consisting of speech items between the first subscriber station (MS,) and at least one other subscriber station (MS,), transmitting an emergency speech item demand (,) from the first subscriber station (MS,), which is in an emergency, to the network infrastructure (BS), and transmitting an emergency speech item grant message (,) from the network infrastructure to the first subscriber station. The method further comprises transmitting, to the at least one other subscriber station (MS,, MS,), emergency speech item information (,) containing the identifier of the first subscriber station (MS,) and indicating that an emergency speech item has been allocated (,) to the first subscriber station. In response to the emergency speech item information (,), the user of the at least one other subscriber station (MS,, MS,) is informed that an emergency speech item has been allocated (,) to the first subscriber station.