Patent ID: 7885845

Claim:
A method for responding to a request for a schedulable resource, comprising: measuring a time interval between rescheduling of an original reservation of a resource at a given time slot and a subsequent new reservation of the resource at the same given time slot; comparing said time interval to a threshold minimum time; in response to said time interval being less than said threshold minimum time, determining that said resource reservation was given up at the behest of a user making said subsequent new reservation; determining that users that give up resource reservations at the behest of other users relatively more frequently are more likely to accommodate a request that they change their existing resource reservations than users that give up resource reservations at the behest of other users relatively less frequently; generating, by a computer, a list in response to said request for said schedulable resource, said list made up of list entries, wherein each list entry includes a user identifier of a user having an existing reservation of a resource matching parameters of said request for said schedulable resource, and wherein said entries in said list are ordered by user identifier based on said collected user behavior data related to said resource reservation changes, wherein entries relatively nearer to a top of said list include user identifiers of users that are relatively more likely to accommodate a request that they change their existing resource reservations; and displaying said list in a graphical user interface.