Appeal No. 2006-0796 Page 7
Application No. 09/607,751
includes buyer and seller agents 102 as well as a resource agent
104, an accounting agent 106, a network control and management
agent 108 and a resource 110 (para. 32). A buyer places a bid
with the resource agent, which ultimately decides which of the
player agents is awarded a portion of each resource for a
predetermined amount of time (para. 33). The allocation command,
shown in figure 1, will include an identification of the winning
buyer or buyers and an identification of the amount of resource
allocated (para. 34). Network control and management agent 108
controls resource 110 to implement the allocation command
received from resource agent 104. Agent 108 commits the
allocated resource to a player after the resource agent has
closed the bidding (para. 35). Once the winning buyers are
determined, resource agent 104 alerts accounting agent 106, which
keeps track of the winning buyers (para. 37).
As shown in figure 4, when the bidding ends, seller agent
102 will receive, from resource agent 104 a notification 404 of
the winning bidder or bidders (para. 45). Figure 5 shows how
resources are allocated after bidding is closed (para. 73).
Figure 9(b) shows how winning buyer ISP 952 is given a resource,
such as bandwidth (para. 88).
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