Computer-implemented system for controlling resources and policies
First Claim
1. A computer system including at least one data storage device including at least one computer usable medium having computer usable code means for allocating services and resources in the computer system, the system having plural computers, the computer usable code means having:
- computer readable code means for identifying plural client computers;
computer readable code means for issuing plural tokens to each client computer, each token being identified with its respective client computer;
computer readable code means for performing one or more services for at least one served computer, with at least one serving computer;
computer readable code means for, in response to the performing of one or more services, transferring control of one or more tokens from the served computer to the serving computer;
computer readable code means for defining at least one auction having plural predetermined possible preferences, each preference representing a result, one or more client computers bidding one or more of their respective tokens for the possible preferences of the auction to thereby establish a winning preference; and
computer readable code means for recycling all tokens bid in the auction to the respective client computers.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system that can be implemented in human and machine societies to control resources, services, and policy includes issuing tokens to originators in exchange for commissions to be performed by the originators. A commission can be a particular function in the society or it can represent a resource that an originator will make available to the society in exchange for the tokens. The originators may exchange their tokens for services performed by other participants in the society, in which case the performing participant obtains possession of the exchanged tokens. Auctions can be periodically declared to settle a point of policy, such as allocating one of the society'"'"'s resources. The participants of the society may bid tokens (both as originators and possessors of tokens) in favor of one of several possible auction preferences. At the end of the term of the auction, tokens that have been bid in the auction are recycled to their respective originators, regardless of the who (originator or possessor) bid the tokens.
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6 Claims
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1. A computer system including at least one data storage device including at least one computer usable medium having computer usable code means for allocating services and resources in the computer system, the system having plural computers, the computer usable code means having:
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computer readable code means for identifying plural client computers; computer readable code means for issuing plural tokens to each client computer, each token being identified with its respective client computer; computer readable code means for performing one or more services for at least one served computer, with at least one serving computer; computer readable code means for, in response to the performing of one or more services, transferring control of one or more tokens from the served computer to the serving computer; computer readable code means for defining at least one auction having plural predetermined possible preferences, each preference representing a result, one or more client computers bidding one or more of their respective tokens for the possible preferences of the auction to thereby establish a winning preference; and computer readable code means for recycling all tokens bid in the auction to the respective client computers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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