METHOD FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF A REAL-TIME MULTI-CLIENT SERVICE

摘要

This invention relates to the determination of service suppliers for the distribution of a service within a network. The invented method enables the selection of service suppliers according to a user defined policy. In the method the requirements for the service are determined, the characteristics of service suppliers and clients are determined, for each client the service suppliers are determined that can support the client, from these service suppliers a set of service suppliers is determined that can supply the service to all clients and finally for each client one service supplier is selected.