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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1999
Applicants:
Magnus Danielson, Stocksund, SE;
Per Lindgren, Stockholm, SE;
Thomas Wahlund, Enskede, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Net Insight AB, Hagersten, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for allocating time slots to circuit-switched channels established to comprise one or more respective time slots in a recurrent frame of a time division multiplexed network. According to the invention, a time slot allocated to said channel is associated with a selected level, of at least two available levels of priority. Decisions as to whether or not to deallocate said time slot from said channel is then based upon a comparison of said selected level of priority and a level of priority associated with a request for a time slot for another channel.