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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2003
Sam Zellner, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Sam Zellner, Dunwoody, GA (US);
AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Associated systems and methods for providing data services using idle cell capacity in a communications system. The systems and methods assign priorities to each remote user device in the communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user device, the switch determines whether an idle channel is available for the remote user device. If no idle channel is available, the switch determines whether a remote user device with a lower priority than the requesting remote user device is using a channel. If a lower priority remote user device is using a channel, its call is terminated and the channel is assigned to the requesting remote user device. If no lower priority remote user device is using a channel, the request for service is put into an ordered queue to wait for the next available idle channel.