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: -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007