Patent ID: 7068766
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A capacity management arrangement executed in an arrangement that includes a resource provider and a first plurality of resource users, where each of said resource users being adapted to reach said resource provider through a channel in a shared resource that includes a second plurality of said channels, said method being executed when user A of said resource users desires to access said resource provider through one of said channels, comprising the steps of: (a) when number of unoccupied channels of said second plurality of channels is below threshold K2, where K2 is a preselected number, declining to provide said access to said user A, for other than a connection attempt to a number in a predetermined class of numbers; (b) when number of unoccupied channels of said second plurality of channels is between threshold K2, and threshold K1, where K1 is a preselected integer greater than K2, executing an algorithm that includes action of (i) dropping an existing connection between one of said resource users to said resource provider, thereby creating an unoccupied channel, and includes a connection for said user A to said resource provider through an unoccupied one of said channels, or (ii) declining to provide said access to said user A; and (c) otherwise, establishing a connection for said user A through an unoccupied one of said channels.