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Abstract

In a communication system that provides access to telephone resources of different types, a resource allocator of the communication system may more efficiently allocate the telephone resources in the following manner. Once a communication unit of a first communication group transmits a request for allocation of a telephone resource, the resource allocator determines what communication group the requesting communication unit is affiliated with. Subsequently, the resource allocator determines whether the requesting communication unit has primary access to either a first or second set of telephone resources. When a telephone resource is available and the requesting communication unit has primary access to that telephone resource, the resource allocator allocates the telephone resource to the requesting communication unit based upon a preestablished allocation procedure.

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