Cisco Technology, Inc.

Michael G Harttree

Keith A Lantz

Subhasri Dhesikan

John K Restrick, Jr

Denise G Caballero-McCann

Scott Allen Henning

Kevin E Miller

Rongxuan V Chen

Martin W Wu

John K Restrick

David Sauerhaft

James M Stormes

A communication system includes a call agent that coordinates and supervises communications between endpoints. The call agent allocates a QoS agent for each endpoint involved in a call. The QoS agents generate reservations for the call in order to provide the call with a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and an established QoS. Each endpoint or location associated with an endpoint has a reservation policy that determines how calls are to be handled when a reservation is or is not obtained and when a reservation is lost or obtained during a call. The communication system is able to handle reservations, or the lack thereof, during various situations like on hold, call transfer, call forwarding, conference call, and shared line services.

System and method for implementing RSVP in a communication environment

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Falls Church, VA, United States of America

Michael G Harttree