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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 24, 2005
Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, CA (US);
Denise G. Caballero-mccann, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin E. Miller, Cary, NC (US);
Rongxuan V. Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
John K. Restrick, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scott A. Henning, Plano, TX (US);
Martin W. Wu, Plano, TX (US);
Keith A. Lantz, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Sauerhaft, Los Altos, CA (US);
Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, CA (US);
Denise G. Caballero-McCann, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin E. Miller, Cary, NC (US);
Rongxuan V. Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
John K. Restrick, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scott A. Henning, Plano, TX (US);
Martin W. Wu, Plano, TX (US);
Keith A. Lantz, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Sauerhaft, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication system includes a call agent that coordinates and supervises communications between endpoints. The call agent allocates a QoS agent for each endpoint involved in a call. The QoS agents generate reservations for the call in order to provide the call with a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and an established QoS. Each endpoint or location associated with an endpoint has a reservation policy that determines how calls are to be handled when a reservation is or is not obtained and when a reservation is lost or obtained during a call. The communication system is able to handle reservations, or the lack thereof, during various situations like on hold, call transfer, call forwarding, conference call, and shared line services.