Arrangement for reserving and allocating a plurality of competing demands for an ordered bus communication network
First Claim
1. A method for reserving and allocating a plurality of competing demands for an ordered bus communications network in response to a plurality of demands from a source, the network including a plurality of customer sites, each customer site including one or more endpoints, each endpoint being connectable to a switching system, the switching system being connectable to one or more other switching systems, means for connecting a first endpoint through said one or more switching systems to a second endpoint, wherein the improvement comprises the steps of:
- (a) receiving demands from a customer site for allocating the network for a communication among a plurality of customer sites;
(b) stratifying the received demands in response to a grouping of endpoints to be conferenced at the customer sites;
(c) allocating the network resources to connect the endpoints to be conferenced in response to the stratified demand includinggenerating setup and terminate times for each endpoint to be connected in a conference;
reserving the endpoints to be connected in the conference; and
generating a plurality of bindings for signaling the network and the source as to success of connecting the endpoints to be conference over said ordered bus network.
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Abstract
A method and system for allocating a constrained common resource (such as capacity in an ordered bus network) among a plurality of demands for the resource. The allocation arrangement receives from a source, demands for allocating the resource (network) for a particular use, e.g., a conference among a plurality of customer sites, stratifies the received demands in response to a grouping of endpoints to be conferenced at the customer sites, and allocates the network resources to connect the endpoints to be conferenced in response to the stratified demand. This is done by generating setup and terminate times for each endpoint to be connected in a conference; reserving the endpoints to be connected in the conference; and generating a plurality of bindings for signalling the network and the source as to the success of connecting the endpoints to be conferenced over the ordered bus network. The arrangement also stratifies a customer'"'"'s demand into sets of strategies for groupings of like endpoints; allocates network resources responsive to characteristics of the different groupings of like endpoints; for each strategy, generates the setup times and terminate times for each endpoint, reserves the endpoints for a reservation, and generates bindings. The endpoints may be codecs, alternate accesses, offnets, audio bridges, and/or video conference controllers.
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1. A method for reserving and allocating a plurality of competing demands for an ordered bus communications network in response to a plurality of demands from a source, the network including a plurality of customer sites, each customer site including one or more endpoints, each endpoint being connectable to a switching system, the switching system being connectable to one or more other switching systems, means for connecting a first endpoint through said one or more switching systems to a second endpoint, wherein the improvement comprises the steps of:
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(a) receiving demands from a customer site for allocating the network for a communication among a plurality of customer sites; (b) stratifying the received demands in response to a grouping of endpoints to be conferenced at the customer sites; (c) allocating the network resources to connect the endpoints to be conferenced in response to the stratified demand including generating setup and terminate times for each endpoint to be connected in a conference; reserving the endpoints to be connected in the conference; and generating a plurality of bindings for signaling the network and the source as to success of connecting the endpoints to be conference over said ordered bus network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for reserving and allocating a plurality of competing demands for an ordered bus communications network in response to a plurality of demands from a source, the network including a plurality of customer sites, each customer site including one or more endpoints, each endpoint being connectable to a switching system, the switching system being connectable to another switching system, means for connecting a first endpoint through one or more switching systems to a second endpoint, wherein the improvement comprises:
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means for receiving demands from a customer site for allocating the network for a communication among a plurality of customer sites; means for stratisfying the received demands in response to a grouping of endpoints to be conferenced at the customer sites; means for allocating the network resources to connect the endpoints to be conferenced in response to the stratified demand including (i) means for generating setup and terminate times for each endpoint to be connected in a conference; (ii) means for reserving the endpoints to be connected in the conference; and (iii) means for generating a plurality of bindings for signalling the network and the source as to success of connecting the endpoints to be conferenced over said ordered bus network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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