Patent ID: 8379543

Claim:
A method of connecting telecommunication call sessions from multiple stations at a subscriber premises, comprising: generating signaling data at one of the stations; receiving the signaling data over a multiple access link at a network interface; transmitting the signaling data over one of a digital loop carrier and a digital network in response to a called number in the signaling data and in response to receiving the signaling data at the network interface; facilitating an appearance of a call received at the subscriber premises on a coaxial cable television channel; allocating a channel in the multiple access link at the network interface to communicate user data over the link, the user data corresponding to the signaling data; wherein the user data includes voice data, and the voice data has higher priority for allocation to the channel than non-voice data; wherein allocating comprises providing 100 percent priority of the channel to the voice data; deallocating the channel in response to a termination of the voice data; reallocating bandwidth of the channel to different user data after deallocating the channel, wherein voice data of the different user data is given priority to the bandwidth of the channel over non-voice data of the different user data; and updating a header associated with the channel to indicate that the bandwidth of the channel has been reallocated to the different user data.