摘要 |
The present invention addresses the need for an apparatus and method for providing dispatch group and individual call services on a CDMA communication system. Generally, the present invention discloses modifications to the IS-95 CDMA standard such as substituting a dispatch identifier (e.g., 201) for the Electronic Serial Number (ESN) used to generate CDMA long-code masks (e.g., 211). In the present invention, transmitted voice information is encoded using a long-code mask thus derived. In addition, a dispatch identifier is used to determine (306 and 404) the appropriate paging resource for transmitting and receiving dispatch call pages. |