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Conference resource allocation and dynamic reallocation

  • US 8,526,336 B2
  • Filed: 08/09/2006
  • Issued: 09/03/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • fetching, by a system that includes a conference resource allocator, prior to a conference session starting, history and/or presence information about a set of participants to the conference session;

    predicatively determining, by the system, based on the history and/or presence information, a probable current physical call location of each of the participants; and

    selecting, by the system, from a set of available resources on a communications network, a resource having an optimal physical location for the conference session based on the probable current physical call location of each of the participants and an average roundtrip signal transmission time between the resource and each endpoint device respectively associated with each of the participants to the conference session, wherein the optimal physical location of the resource provides each of the participants with a substantially equal chance of grabbing a slot in a next available talk burst during the conference session by approximately equalizing latency among the participants.

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