Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Reservation – check-in – or booking display for reserved space
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-31
2006-10-31
Dixon, Thomas A. (Department: 3639)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space
Reexamination Certificate
active
07130806
ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses a method of allocating resource units such as hotel rooms, computer memory locations, seats in an aircraft, etc which constitute a sequence of allocatable resource units. Each resource unit is identified with a leading and a trailing identifier separated by a first divider and placed in a string which is able to be compared with a similar string representing an allocation criterion. The strings are matched and if a match is successful then the first divider of the matched portion of the string is replaced with a second divider which thereby indicates that an allocation has been made. A system for carrying out the above method and a computer program product incorporating the method are also disclosed. A method of queuing resource allocation and deallocation requests is also disclosed.
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Dixon Thomas A.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Schmeiser Olsen & Watts
Steinberg William H.
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