"Plug and play" telephone system

Details "Plug and play" telephone system "Plug and play" telephone system

1997-02-28

1999-03-16

Kuntz, Curtis A.

Telephonic communications

Multi-line or key substation system with selective switching...

With intercom system

379158, 379161, 379164, H04M 100

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058839445

ABSTRACT:
A distributed processing telephone system for providing "plug-and-play" capability. In particular, a key telephone system comprises a plurality of telephone sets. Each telephone set is coupled to at least one common communications channel, or telephone line, and includes at least one tunable RF modem. There is no key service unit (KSU). That is, the system is KSU-less. Resources of the telephone system are allocated using a peer-to-peer protocol. For example, as each telephone set is newly added to the system, the new telephone set adaptively determines its own allocation of resources, e.g., intercom numbers, etc. During operation, each telephone set requests the appropriate resources from its peers.

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