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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2006
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven L. Christenson, Campbell, CA (US);
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven L. Christenson, Campbell, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of allocating, revoking and transferring resources from a pool of conference resources provided by a conference system comprises assigning a guaranteed status to at least some participants to a conference to be hosted by the system. At least some of the resources may be reserved for the guaranteed status participants, to enable the guaranteed status participants to participate in the conference. When another participant to the conference is received, the other participant may be assigned a provisional status. Unused resources in the pool of resources may be allocated as provisional resources to the provisional status participant and the participant is admitted to participate in the conference utilizing the provisional resources. The provisional resources may be reserved for, but are at the time not used by a guaranteed status participant. Borrowed resources may be reclaimed and transferred to the guaranteed status participant.