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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Wei, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Medhavi Dhawan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Maithem Munshed, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01); G06F 9/448 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/458 (2013.01); G06F 8/42 (2013.01); G06F 9/4498 (2018.02);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to techniques for maintaining a state of a distributed system. In particular, certain embodiments relate to identifying a function. Some embodiments relate to, upon determining that the function comprises an annotation indicating that the function is capable of modifying the state of the distributed system, transforming the function to allow the function to generate updates to a state machine.