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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001

Filed:

Jul. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Nikolai K. N. Leung, Arlington, VA (US);

Andrew DeJaco, San Diego, CA (US);

Johnny John, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 ; H04M 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 ; H04M 1/00 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus to facilitate service negotiation by a digital telecommunications system that allows a low activity communication to be transmitted by the system over vocoded channels. In one embodiment, once the telecommunication system is noticed that a low activity signal needs to be transmitted, each telecommunication system vocoder involved in the transmission automatically locks into full rate, and where applicable, adjusts the transmission power to reduce frame error rate. Further, the telecommunications system may include any number of wireless links. The invention includes a noticing apparatus coupled to a sensor that receives a low activity communication device attachment and notices the digital telecommunications system that a low activity communication is being initiated or discontinued.


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