Management of network resources accessible via multiple network portals

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to database modification, and in particular, database modification in the context of networked platforms accessible by user computing devices. One example context to which such database modification techniques can be applied is a network provider providing a plurality of individual network portals via which users may access network resources and perform other transactions. Such a network provider may maintain a network resource availability database that needs to be updated in response to each network resource access requests being received and granted via the plurality of individual network portals. The techniques described herein allow the network resource availability database of such a network provider to be updated differently depending on the context in which resource requests are granted.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for facilitating management of network resources, the method comprising:
 providing a database storing network resource availability information associated with a network provider and a plurality of internal users registered with the network provider, wherein the network provider is configured to provide, to each internal user of the plurality of internal users, (i) a network portal accessible by other users of the network provider and (ii) a plurality of network resources that, upon the internal user’s selection, become available on the internal user’s network portal and accessible to visitors of the internal user’s network portal, wherein the plurality of network resources includes a set of external network resources provided by an external user of the network provider that does not have a network portal, and wherein the set of external network resources provided by the external user is selectable by the plurality of internal users to cause the set of external network resources to be accessible via the respective network portals of the plurality of internal users;   determining, based on the network resource availability information stored in the database, that the network provider has a first amount of a first network resource of the plurality of network resources available, wherein the first network resource is provided to the network provider by a first external user of the network provider, and wherein a first internal user of the plurality of internal users and a second internal user of the plurality of internal users have selected the first network resource to cause the first network resource to be accessible on their respective network portals;   receiving, from a first user computing device, a first resource request to access the first network resource via a first network portal associated with the first internal user, wherein the first resource request indicates a first amount of the first network resource;   determining whether any of the plurality of internal users has an amount of the first network resource greater than or equal to the first amount indicated by the first resource request;   in response to determining that none of the plurality of internal users has an amount of the first network resource greater than or equal to the first amount indicated by the first resource request, determining whether the network provider has an amount of the first network resource greater than or equal to the first amount indicated by the first resource request;   in response to determining that the network provider does have an amount of the first network resource greater than or equal to the first amount indicated by the first resource request, updating the network resource availability information to reduce a total amount of the first network resource associated with the network provider by the first amount indicated by the first resource request;   granting the first resource request from the first user computing device such that the first amount of the first network resource indicated by the first resource request is made accessible to a first user of the first user computing device;   continuing to process and grant a first set of resource requests received via one or more of the plurality of network portals provided by the network provider and to update the network resource availability information to reduce the network provider’s available amount of the first network resource to reflect the granted first set of resource requests, as long as only the network provider has availability of the first network resource; and   detecting an alternative source of the first network resource other than the network provider, wherein the alternative source of the first network resource is associated with a second internal user of the network provider,   wherein in response to detecting the alternative source of the first network resource other than the network provider, the process of updating the network resource availability information in the database transitions from (1) deducting the amount of the first network resource requested and granted via the first internal user’s network portal from the network provider’s available amount of the first network resource to (2) deducting the amount of the first network resource requested and granted via the first internal user’s network portal from the second internal user’s available amount of the first network resource.