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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1991

Filed:

Sep. 12, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kenneth P Wayne, Swampscott, MA (US);

Jay P Werb, Newton, MA (US);

Assignee:

Addax, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364401 ; 34028606 ;
Abstract

A system for allocating service resources to a plurality of individuals who have requested services includes a plurality of communication devices, each one of which is for assignment to a different one of the individuals; assignment logic for assigning each one of the individuals to a corresponding one of the queues, each one of the of queues a different priority associated with it; indication logic for indicating that a service resource is or will become available to serve a next individual; selection logic for selecting the next individual from the queue having the highest priority and having at least one individual assigned to it; and a communicator for communicating with the communication device assigned to the next individual so as to notify the next individual that service is available. The communication devices are handheld wireless pagers. The communicator is a wireless transmitter.


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