Patent ID: 11966868
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the indications for each demand further comprises:
while (i) a unit quantity of unassigned units for the demand remain, and (ii) a current distribution under consideration remains unevaluated among the initial distribution and the previous distributions,
(a) selecting as a least quantity one of (i) a supply quantity available for assignment from the current distribution and (ii) the unit quantity,
(b) reducing both the supply quantity and the unit quantity by the least quantity,
(c) inserting the current distribution and the least quantity into an assignment map, and
(d) in response to the supply quantity being completely exhausted, setting the current distribution to be a previous distribution immediately preceding the current distribution;

determining whether unassigned units remain for the demand; and
in response to a determination
(i) that unassigned units for the demand remain, removing the least quantities stored in the assignment map and adding the least quantities to the supply quantities of the respective distributions, and generating the indication that the demand cannot be fulfilled; and
(ii) that unassigned units for the demand do not remain, generating the indication that the demand can be completely fulfilled, and retaining the assignment map, wherein the assignment map indicates source distributions and quantities for all supply assigned to the demand.