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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc;
Xu Liu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Steve Chun-Hao Hu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yingji Ju, Bellevue, WA (US);
Swadhin Ajay Thakkar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jose Fernandez, Renton, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A data processing system for providing a distributed timer implements receiving a first timer message associated with a first computing device requesting creation of a first timer having a first duration and a first timer identifier; responsive to the first timer message creating a first timer, and inserting a first timer queue entry into a first timer queue associated with a first timer wait interval; receiving a plurality of second timer messages to reset the first timer; inserting a plurality of second timer queue entries into the first timer queue based on the plurality of second timer messages; and processing timer queue entries in the first timer queue responsive to the first timer wait interval having passed.