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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Mark C. Bullock, Apalachin, NY (US);
Glenn W. Davis, Vestal, NY (US);
Franklin A. Gruber, Vestal, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for dedicating an externally configurable modem under system software control at a local peer for communication with one, single, predetermined remote peer, thereby providing the equivalent of a dedicate line by operating a single modem at the local node. The modem to be dedicated to the predetermined, single remote node is initialized to answer mode and reconfigured to originate mode when needed. The process of configuring the modem of the local node establishes a point-to-point protocol (PPP) route for establishing a physical connection path to the remote node.