Ex parte DEPUE - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1998-1696                                                        
          Application No. 08/562,197                                                  


               The invention is directed to a multiplexer device for                  
          enabling more than one line telephone service provided on two               
          conductor analog subscriber telephony lines to be multiplexed               
          over a single existing interior conventional two conductor                  
          wire and demultiplexed at the terminal subscriber location to               
          more than one analog two conductor subscriber lines.                        
               Independent claim 15 is reproduced as follows:                         
               15.       A system for increasing the capacity of                      
          preexisting subscriber lines located within a subscriber’s                  
          premises comprising:                                                        
               at least two external analog telephone subscriber lines                
          supplied by a telephone service provider including data,                    
          voice, and control signals;                                                 
               a master multiplexer subscriber line unit located                      
          external to said subscriber’s premises comprising:                          
               at least two frontend electronic connections to said at                
          least two external analog telephone subscriber lines supplied               
          by the telephone service provider;                                          
               multiplexing and demultiplexing circuitry for data voice               
          communications for said at least two external analog telephone              
          subscriber lines;                                                           
               detection and generation circuitry for analog telephone                
          signaling and control;                                                      
          an interior preexisting conventional two conductor telephone                
          wire;                                                                       
          a slave demultiplexer subscriber line unit located within said              
          subscriber’s premises comprising:                                           
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