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2006-09-15

2009-11-24

Meky, Moustafa M (Department: 2453)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer conferencing

Demand based messaging

C709S226000, C725S114000, C725S115000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07624153

ABSTRACT:
A strategy is described for allocating resources of an operations center to provide a collection of channels. The strategy uses static resources to provide relatively popular channels and dynamic resources to provide relatively unpopular channels. The strategy can separately perform this allocation for different regions served by the operations center. Through this provision, the strategy can reduce the cost of the operations center by making more efficient use of a limited number of resources.

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