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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1994
John W Maher, Woodstock, IL (US);
James H Errico, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
Listening capacity of a signal destination is augmented through the provision of a master switching center (207) and a slave switching center (209) linked via a dedicated communication port (203). Under direction of the master switching center (207), the slave switching center (209) sums communication system data signals received from shared communication ports (201) and presents the resulting summed communication data to the dedicated communication port (203). The master switching center (207) presents the summed communication data, received via the dedicated communication port (203), to the signal destination, thus augmenting listening capacity of the signal destination.