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Abstract

The ACBCD distributes calls for business service in a given business category to competing businesses on the basis of proportionate shares allocated to the individual competitors, all without ongoing manual intervention in the allocation process. The distribution process takes one of several forms, all of which guarantee any competitor in a given business category a minimum competitive share of the incoming calls for business service. The invention provides a means for each competitor in a given business category to raise or lower its own expected relative share of the incoming calls, subject to constraints imposable by the supplier of the invention's call-distribution service. This invention is useful in many communication networks, including and not limited to the traditional PSTN 10, in the Internet and World Wide Web, or in any mixture of these technologies.

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First Claim