Patent ID: 8589936

Claim:
A method for allocating a resource of a management system, comprising: receiving, from a first borrower, a request for a system resource allocation; determining a request priority of the first borrower based on a present resource allocation associated with the first borrower, wherein the first borrower request priority is determined using at least one of: a first mapping of a range of priority values available for assignment to the first borrower to a range of allocable resource values defined by a minimum number of resources assignable to the first borrower and a maximum number of resources assignable to the first borrower; or a second mapping of a range of priority values available for assignment to the first borrower to a plurality of priority levels associated with the first borrower; determining a hold priority of a second borrower based on a present resource allocation associated with the second borrower; and determining, using the first borrower request priority and the second borrower hold priority, whether to reallocate any of the second borrower resource allocation to the first borrower.