Abstract: An assembly for carrying a cellular phone having a cradle adapted to receive and releasably hold the phone therein, a base adapted to be releasably connected to an article, and means for releasably connecting said cradle to said base. The cradle has a body portion and side members fixed to the body portion and shaped to conform to the contour of the phone. The base has base plate and means for releasably connecting the base plate to the article. The connection means includes a male fixture fixed to the base plate and having an annular groove; a cutout in the base plate adapted to receive said male fixture; and, a locking plate that that can be reciprocated from a first position engaging the annular groove to lock the male fixture within the cutout, and a second position disengaged from the annular groove that permits the male fixture to be withdrawn from the cutout.

Abstract: An adjunct processor for a wireless telephone system utilizes object-oriented software for providing a common air-interface protocol for each cell site's base station, so that, regardless of the specific cellular system. it may be coupled to the central, adjunct node-processor of the invention, so that multifarious-operating cellular systems may be linked by the central personal computer adjunct node-processor into one holistic system comprised of many different cellular operating systems and of many node-processors. A network of many adjunct node-processors allows hand-off between adjunct processors, to that if one adjunct processor fails or is down, another adjunct processor in the network may take over its functions. Each adjunct processor also has an alarm-management system and a billing and accounts-management system, which may take over the same systems another, down adjunct processor.