At&t Bell Laboratories

Thomas M O'Connor

Robert B Dianda

Rolfe E Buhrke

Susan Jean Tripp

Leo R Katzenstein

Bopsi Chandramouli

Gabriela M Abramovici

Timothy G Rinker

A call processing method and apparatus for maximizing the number of calls that are offered to terminals sharing a digital subscriber line while insuring that for every call offered, a channel of the digital subscriber line remains allocatable to at least one terminal addressed by the call for use in answering the call. The switching system reserves a channel of the digital subscriber line in response to an incoming call. This channel is reserved for a set of terminals that share the digital subscriber line and that are addressed by the incoming call. This reservation entitles one of the terminals to be allocated a channel to originate or answer calls.

Communication channel reservation

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Thomas M O'Connor