METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPORARILY ASSIGNING ACCESS TO ASSETS IN RESPONSE TO RESERVATION REQUESTS

摘要

A method and system for allocating temporary assignments of access to nonhomogeneous assets to a plurality of parties is provided. The assets are each designated as being of a certain type of at least two value types. Assets and asset access requests (“request”) are further designated as having one or more particular distinguishing features. The requests are generally ordered according to a value ranking The assets are then assigned by first assigning lower typed assets to the lower ranked requests. When all assets of a lower type are assigned, the remaining unassigned requests are assigned to unassigned assets of the next higher type. When all assets of the highest type are assigned, selected assets may be then reassigned to insure that higher valued requests are assigned to assets and permitting lower valued requests to (a.) be assigned to lower valued assets; or (b.) be unassigned and thereby denied.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of separately assigning assets to reservation requests, the method comprising:
a. Assigning by a computer processor as directed by one or more human users (“users”) a first asset quality level to a first plurality of assets (“first level assets”); b. Assigning by a computer processor as previously directed by one or more users a higher ranked second asset quality level to a second plurality of assets (“second level assets”); c. Enabling access to the computer processor a first plurality of requests, wherein each request of the first plurality of requests (“first level requests”) is associated with the first asset quality level and each first level request is further associated with an individual relative request value; d. The computer processor tentatively assigning first level assets to individual requests of the first plurality of requests on an exclusive, one-to-one basis in order from first level requests with the lowest relative request value to first level requests of higher relative request values; e. If every first level asset is assigned to a first level request and any first level requests remain unassigned to an asset, the computer processor tentatively assigning second level assets to individual unassigned first level requests on an exclusive, one-to-one basis in order from unassigned first level requests with the lowest relative request value to unassigned first level requests of higher relative request values; and f. The computer processor presenting the tentative assignments of assets to first level requests to a human administrator for modification of the asset to request assignments.