Abstract: An antenna module for use a non-conductive cab of a motor vehicle includes a dielectric substrate and one or more antenna loops arranged on the substrate. The substrate is adapted to be installed between the headliner of a cab and the dielectric roof. The module may include a CB antenna loop, an AM/FM antenna loop, a cellular mobile telephone antenna loop, and a global positioning system antenna, without the need for any antenna structure external to the cab. The antennae are arranged on the module in a nested configuration. A CB antenna, provided with loading coils, forms an outer loop. An AM/FM antenna loop, including a capacitor yielding a substantially short circuit connection in the FM frequency range, forms a FM frequency antenna loop and an AM frequency dipole, within the CB loop. A multiloop array cellular telephone antenna is arranged within the AM/FM loop. A standard crossed dipole GPS antenna is positioned in an area between the CB loop and the AM/FM loop near one corner of the substrate.

Abstract: A wireless-access communications system, such as a CDMA cellular radio-telephone system (FIG. 2), comprises a packet-switched communications network (202, 207, 201) that interconnects cells (base stations; 202) with each other and with the public telephone network (100). Traffic of individual calls is packetized, and packet-bearing frames (300 in FIG. 7) of a plurality of calls are then statistically multiplexed and frame-relayed through the network to yield the high capacity, efficiency, and speed of traffic transport and handoff required for a CDMA cellular system. At each call processing unit (264 in FIG. 5), individual calls are handled by individual service circuits (602 & 612) which perform speech-processing functions such as coding and decoding, tone insertion, and echo cancellation, and packet-to-circuit-switched-PCM traffic conversion.

Abstract: There is provided a process for the preparation of a 2,3-pyridinedicarboxylic acid from a 3-(2-imidazolin-2-yl)picolinic acid. The 2,3-pyridinedicarboxylic acids are useful in the preparation of herbicidal 2-(2-imidazolin-2-yl)nicotinic and quinoline-3-carboxylic acids, esters and salts.

Abstract: A wireless-access communications system, such as a CDMA cellular radio-telephone system (FIG. 2), comprises a packet-switched communications network (202, 207, 201) that interconnects cells (base stations; 202) with each other and with the public telephone network (100). Traffic of individual calls is packetized, and packet-bearing frames (300 in FIG. 7) of a plurality of calls are then statistically multiplexed and frame-relayed through the network to yield the high capacity, efficiency, and speed of traffic transport and handoff required for a CDMA cellular system. At each call processing unit (264 in FIG. 5), individual calls are handled by individual service circuits (602 and 612) which perform speech-processing functions such as coding and decoding, tone insertion, and echo cancellation, and packet-to-circuit-switched-PCM traffic conversion.

Abstract: In a telecommunication switching system, an apparatus for automatically converting ISDN codeset and codepoint protocol in messages transmitted to the telecommunication switching system from a plurality of other telecommunication switching systems each using a diffrent ISDN codeset and codepoint protcol than the telecommunication switching system to identify the same data information. All telecommunication switching systems are interconnected by data channels. Further, the apparatus is responsive to another ISDN message generated by the telecommunications switching system for transmission to another one of the plurality of telecommunication switching systems to convert the codeset and codepoint protocol of the other message to the codepoint and codeset protocol of the other one of the plurality of telecommunication switching systems.

Abstract: A circuit switching system for interconnecting end point systems, such as packet switches, compressed voice concentrators, or data multiplexers, by allowing multiple logical links on each logical channel. The circuit switching system is connected to the end point system by a number of communication facilities with each facility having a plurality of logical channels. For packet switches, the circuit switching system is responsive to a first request to establish a first logical link on a logical channel to a packet switch and is responsive to a second request for another logical link to that packet switch to establish a second logical link on the same logical channel. The circuit switching system is responsive to a third request for establishing a logical link to another packet switch on the same logical channel for denying this request and for negotiating another logical channel.

Abstract: The subject communication system is an improved cellular mobile telecommunication system which provides business communication features to cellular mobile telecommunication customers.This is accomplished by using a business communication system as the switch element in the mobile telecommunication office. The master-slave relationship between the mobile telecommunication controller and the system processor that is found in the prior art is replaced by a peer-peer relationship. The mobile telecommunication control functions are handled by the mobile telecommunication controller while the call processing/connection control functions are handled by the system processor. Thus, the existing business communication call processing software can be used directly and any new business communication service provided by the business communication system is also available to the cellular mobile telecommunication customer.