摘要 |
<p>In a cordless telephone system, several speech channels are periodically scanned by a base station during a standby mode to detect idle channels from the scanned channels. In response to receipt of a call request from a cordless station or an incoming call from a switched telephone network, the base station transmits a channel indicating signal to the cordless station over a control channel indicating that the detected idle channels can be used as possible candidate channels, switches to a first candidate channel and waits for an end-of-switching signal from the cordless station until a prescribed period of time expires. On receiving the channel indicating signal, the cordless station switches to the first candidate channel and makes a channel check on it and transmits an end-of-switching signal if it determines that the first candidate channel is idle. If the end-of-switching signal is not received from the cordless station before the prescribed period expires, the base station switches to a second candidate channel. If the cordless station determines that the first candidate channel is busy, it switches to the second candidate channel and makes a channel check on it. If the cordless station determines that the second candidate channel is idle, it transmits the end-of-switching signal over the second candidate channel. <IMAGE></p> |