Patent ID: 8738776

Claim:
A system for distributing a limited resource selected from a plurality of limited resources in response to resource requests from a plurality of clients competing for the limited resource, the system comprising: a main server configured to provide standard application server functionality for maintaining the plurality of limited resources and maintaining a main server connectivity policy therefore for providing communication with the plurality of clients via a communication network; a server supporting a limited number of commands including those relating to submission of the resource requests, the server providing a segregated system from the main server and configured to: receive the resource requests for the limited resource from the plurality of clients via the communication network, and maintain a server connectivity policy separate from the main server connectivity policy of the main server in order to reduce a maintaining of connections to the main server for the resource requests; and a control module in communication with the server to coordinate distribution of the limited resource by; process a resource request of said resource and distribute the limited resource accordingly to a client of the plurality of clients associated with the resource request; wherein the client subsequently confirms the resource request with the main server.