Abstract: A portable radio telephone handset includes the capability of operating as a data transfer terminal as well as an analog cellular telephone subscriber station. Two modes of operation are available in the handset, an analog cellular communication mode and a Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) mode. A paging function for incoming analog cellular communication is carried out on a CDPD channel. The handset distinguishes between paging signals identifying CDPD mode communications and paging signals identifying analog cellular communications. The handset automatically preempts CDPD communications in favor of analog cellular communications such as those carried out in an AMPS configuration.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for reconstructing non-quantized adaptively transformed voice signals are shown to include noise shaping wherein the spectral envelope is scaled prior to generating bit allocation and energy substitution which is achieved after dequantization by generating the spectral envelope information for each block of transform coefficients based upon side information, generating transform coefficients which correspond to transform coefficients which were not de-quantized and for substituting the generated transform coefficients into said blocks; and transforming said blocks of de-quantized transform coefficients and generated transform coefficients from said transform domain into said time domain.