Patent ID: 6304644
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A consumer premises equipment (CPE) for receiving caller identification (CID) information from a plurality of telephone lines, said CPE comprising:a plurality of telephone line circuits corresponding to the plurality of telephone lines for receiving at least one of CID information and CPE alerting signal (CAS) tones from said plurality of telephone lines;a single detector for detecting said CID information and CAS tones from said plurality of telephone lines;a microprocessor coupled to said single detector and said plurality of telephone line circuits, the microprocessor providing a control signal;a switch coupled to said microprocessor and being interposed between the single detector and the plurality of telephone line circuits and being responsive to said control signal, for operatively switchably coupling one of said plurality of telephone line circuits to said single detectorwherein said switch dynamically selects and operatively switchably couples one of said plurality of the telephone line circuits to said detector based on a primary set of priorities.