Patent ID: 7860918
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for scheduling events between first and second sets of objects, comprising: (a) a scheduling server, comprising a processor and memory, providing identifiers to members of first and second sets of objects, the identifiers used for the members of a set being unique within that set and the identifiers being typically consecutively numbered within each set; (b) the scheduling server using modular arithmetic to generate first and second sequences of the identifiers for each of the first and second sets, respectively, wherein the modular arithmetic is one of: (c) the scheduling server associating identifiers from the first and second sequences to provide a plurality of groupings of identifiers, each grouping of identifiers comprising at least one identifier from each of the first and second sequences; and (d) the scheduling server scheduling a corresponding event for each of the grouping of identifiers.