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Reservation management for polling requests in a communication system

US11582271B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 21, 2021
Grant dateFeb 14, 2023
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Expiry dateOct 21, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/55
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for committing back end computing resources to an online stream of requests for data from client devices are described herein. A polling schedule server (e.g., a reservation management system), may receive polling reservation requests from a plurality of client devices, may evaluate each client device's need for “fresh” data based on a number of input signals, and may assign the client device a polling slot (e.g., a reservation for a future polling time). The polling scheduler server may subsequently receive a polling request from a client device and, upon validating a token received from the client device as well as a difference between an assigned polling time and the polling request timestamp, may grant the polling request by transmitting a request to one or more communication system servers, receiving data from the communication system servers, and providing the data to the client device.

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