Patent ID: 7286654

Claim:
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 K 2 , where K 2 is a preselected number, declining to provide said access to said user A; (b) when number of unoccupied channels of said second plurality of channels is between threshold K 2 , and threshold K 1 , where K 1 is a preselected integer greater than K 2 , 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.