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Article: California Inventors Develop Service Provider Virtual Capacity Providing Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 9, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Chris A. Wolfe of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and Michael L. Segal of Carlsbad, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for providing virtual capacity to a service provider.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service provider contacts a third party service provider when the service provider can not perform services for a customer. A solicitation is sent by the service provider and accepted by the third party service provider. After acceptance, status and/or location information from the third party service provider is redirected within a network management facility so that the information is sent to the service provider, rather than to an ...