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Duplex speech transmission method and a system therefor

CA 1231788 A · Owner: N.V.Philips'Gloeilampenfabrieken · Inventors: White, Philip D.

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The invention relates to a duplex speech transmission method and a system therefor and has particular but not exclusive, application to cordless telephone systems. In known time division duplex transmission systems speech by one party is digitalised at a certain mean bit rate and then time-compressed and applied in alternate slots in a speech transmission channel the remaining slots, being used by the other party on the link. The disadvantage of this known system is that when one person is not speaking then his slots on the transmission channel are left vacant. In the method described when it is determined that one party has no valid speech to send in his time slot then the other party is …

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  • Granted January 19, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 19, 2005.
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FiledDecember 5, 1984
GrantedJanuary 19, 1988
Term endedJanuary 19, 2005
Patent numberCA 1231788 A
Classification (IPC)H04J3/17 +2 more

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1985198819911994199720002003Application filedDec 5, 1984Patent grantedJan 19, 1988Term endedJan 19, 2005

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