Apparatus and method for directing calls to mobile telephone subscribers
CA 2078439 C · Owner: Hayes, John · Inventors: Buhl, Nancy; Kallin, Harald; Hayes, John
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The present invention provides a mobile communications system in which the home exchange of a mobile subscriber maintains information indicative of where the mobile subscriber might be found. Upon receipt of a call, the home exchange requests the exchange where the mobile is believed to be located to page it and then requests the answering exchange(s) to order the mobile to tune to a voice/traffic channel. Only after the successful completion of this process does the answering exchange report this to the home exchange which then orders routing of the call through the network.
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- Filed April 26, 1991 and granted April 17, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 26, 2011.
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