Claims
- 1. A communication system for use with an existing paging infrastructure, the infrastructure having a paging terminal connected to a telephone connection for receiving a telephone call with a paging message, and the infrastructure further having a plurality of paging transmitter towers located in the geographic market being served, the system comprising:
- a plurality of communication devices divided into a plurality of groups, each communication device corresponding to a unique address and having:
- a paging receiver adapted to receiving a paging radio signal from at least one of the plurality of paging transmitter towers, the paging radio signal having a first power level;
- a display connected to the paging receiver for displaying information received by the paging receiver;
- a user input for receiving input from a user and for initiating communication of the input received by the user;
- a transmitter for transmitting the input received from the user on a spread spectrum radio signal having a second power level which is below the first power level, the spread spectrum radio signal being selected by a repeating pseudo-random code sequence, each of said groups being assigned to a different non-overlapping sequence segment on the code sequence such that the communication devices of each of said groups use orthogonal sequence numbers;
- a plurality of receiving antennas located at diverse locations in the geographic market served and operable for receiving a plurality of the spread spectrum radio signals from the plurality of communication devices; and
- a receiving terminal connected to each of the plurality of receiving antennas and operable for receiving the input each user of each of the plurality of communication devices and further operable for forwarding the information to a designated location.
- 2. The communication system of claim 1 wherein one of the plurality of receiving antennas is located at the same location as one of the paging transmitter towers.
- 3. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the spread spectrum radio signals are frequency hopping signals.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 08/158,441, filed Nov. 24, 1993, U.S. Pat. No. 5,430,759 which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/932,610 entitled "REMOTE POSITION DETERMINATION" filed Aug. 20, 1992, now abandoned, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/961,776 entitled "PAGER WITH REVERSE PAGING FACILITY" filed Oct. 15, 1992, U.S. Pat. No. 5,335,246 both of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
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