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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
Change Healthcare Llc, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Ka Kiu Chow, Vancouver, CA;
Change Healthcare LLC, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to provide management of allocation of communication resources. An example method may include receiving a first request for a communication resource for use to establish a communication channel between a client device and an application server, determining a request type of the first request, determining, using a processor, that a request type ban is not in effect for the request type of the first request, in response to determining that the request type ban is not in effect for the request type, granting the first request by allocating the communication resource to the client device, determining that the client device has maintained allocation of the communication resource for greater than a threshold amount of time, and in response to determining that the client device has maintained allocation of the communication resource for greater than the threshold amount of time, initiating the request type ban for the request type of the first request.