Multilink Inc.

Philip S Brodsky

Philip J Baun, Jr

Bruce S Allen

Marshall B Garrison

Arthur P Leondires

Gary R McCarthy

Richard LeBlanc

An improved system for connecting and processing a plurality of phone user in a teleconference on a common digital bus. The apparatus includes a plurality of digital processing units (DSPs) associated with selective phone lines and in communication with each other. Each DSP determines an activity status for each associated phone line and transmits that status to the other DSPs, The DSPs create and update respective identical 'talk-lists' which reflect the active conferees whose voice data is currently being output on the phone channels. The system thus provides scaleable teleconferencing in a real-time configuration without switching between the various signals on the common bus such that each incoming caller or even a plurality of conferences has equal priority.

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Methuen, MA, United States of America

Philip S Brodsky