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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:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2017
Applicant:

Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Wei, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Medhavi Dhawan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Maithem Munshed, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Roger Michoud, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/90 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 16/2308 (2019.01); G06F 16/90 (2019.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

In accordance with disclosed embodiments, a shared log system includes a sequencer to verify transactions that comprise a source object and one or more members of the source object (source data objects), a target object and one or more members of the target object (target data objects), and a snapshot time reference. The sequencer verifies transaction using the snapshot time to determine whether the data states of the source data objects at the time of the snapshot time represent their most current data state in a shared log.


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