Abstract: A method and apparatus eliminates an audible noise burst after reestablishment of an external timing signal in a radio base station (102). After a loss of the external timing signal, the base station (102) temporarily operates from an internal timing signal generator (226) to provide digital communications over a radio link (106) with a portable communication unit (120). After reestablishment of the external timing signal, the base station (102) detects (304) the presence of the signal, waits (306) for the signal to stabilize, and controls (312) the portable communication unit (120) to disable audio while switching (316) back to the external timing signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing over-the-air time division duplexing communication within a defined geographical coverage area (201) of a communication system (200) that provides at least cordless radiotelephone operation between a plurality of portable radiotelephone transceivers and a plurality of telepoint base stations (202, 204, 206) geographically located within the coverage area (201). The communication system (200) transmits over-the-air a synchronization timing signal (203) including timing information corresponding to a transmit-and-receive duty cycle timing for time division duplexing communication. At least one telepoint base station (204, 206) within the coverage area (201) receives the synchronization timing signal (203). The at least one telepoint base station (204, 206) synchronizes its over-the-air time division duplexing communication transmit-and-receive duty cycle timing to the timing information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing communication among N modules connected to a common communication bus uses a bus structure with a reserve line for signaling the occurrence of a reservation time slot during which time each of the N modules which have information to transmit may reserve a time for transmission over the bus. A plurality of at least N data lines are used for transmission of data words over the bus. Each of the N modules are also assigned use of one of the plurality of data lines for signaling during the reservation time slot that the module has information to transmit over the bus. The reserve line is also used for signaling, that a word of data being transmitted over the plurality of data lines is a last word in a current transmission to be transmitted by the module currently transmitting.