Patent ID: 8024355

Claim:
A method, comprising: storing in a database one or more changes desired for a capacity demand profile of a resource by one or more transactions that are locked out from using said capacity demand profile; after storing said one or more desired changes in said database, locking said capacity demand profile of said resource for use by a transaction while locking out use by other transactions; selecting from said database a change that a locked-out transaction desired to implement to said capacity demand profile prior to said locking and that was stored during a prior locking of said capacity demand profile; obtaining a portion of said locked capacity demand profile by using one or more processors, said portion describing said capacity demand profile over a time interval in which said locked-out transaction desired to implement said change to said capacity demand profile prior to said locking; implementing said change to said portion to form a changed portion; and after said implementing, implementing a second change to said changed portion, said second change desired by said transaction.