Claims
- 1. A method of detecting system errors in a paging system, comprising the steps of:
- receiving an alarm condition from a remote paging station;
- storing the received alarm condition in a list of received alarm conditions;
- determining if a duplicate alarm condition has been received from another remote paging station within a predetermined wait time; and
- generating a system alarm condition if duplicate alarm conditions have been received from two or more remote paging stations within the wait time.
- 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of generating a paging alert to be transmitted to a service technician that indicates the presence of the system alarm condition.
- 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of removing duplicate alarm conditions from the list of received alarm conditions.
RELATED APPLICATION
The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/496,829 filed Jun. 29, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,749,045, the benefit of the filing date being claimed under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 120.
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