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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Amer Aref Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sonu Arora, Redmond, WA (US);
Omar Aftab, Kirkland, WA (US);
Bradford R. Clark, Broomfield, CO (US);
Danny Levin, Tel Aviv, IL;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for selecting a host facility for a communications session for a group of devices. In one aspect, a method includes partitioning the devices into multiple clusters. Each cluster is associated with a respective host facility that is estimated to provide each device in the respective cluster a specified quality requirement during the communication session. The method also includes accessing a weighting value for each cluster of the different clusters based on one or more attributes of the devices in each respective cluster of the different clusters, and selecting a group host facility, from the host facilities associated with the clusters based on the weighting value of each respective cluster and a predefined criterion, the group host facility to host the communication session for the devices.