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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Cook, Rochester, MN (US);

Manuel Orozco, Rochester, MN (US);

Christopher R. Sabotta, Rochester, MN (US);

John M. Santosuosso, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/601 (2013.01); G06F 11/1461 (2013.01); G06F 11/1466 (2013.01); G06F 16/24568 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01);
Abstract

A variable checkpoint mechanism in a streams manager checkpoints a streaming application based on periodic time periods for checkpoints. The variable checkpoint mechanism can take a checkpoint early before a periodic time period ends or late after the periodic time period ends based on predicted size of one or more tuple windows in the streaming application. The time for taking the checkpoint can be selected based on multiple checkpoint timing criteria, which include storage requirement for the checkpoint and predicted backpressure in the flow graph. In this manner the checkpoint timing of the variable checkpoint mechanism can be adjusted real-time to minimize the negative impact of checkpointing on the performance of the streaming application.


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