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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2021
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Leu, San Jose, CA (US);
PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to methods that include initializing, by a computer in a computer system, an event counter that includes a plurality of sub-counter groups, each plurality of sub-counter groups including at least two sub-counters located on different nodes of a plurality of nodes in the computer system. In response to an occurrence of an event associated with the event counter, the method may include the computer selecting a particular sub-counter group of the plurality of sub-counter groups to update, and sending, to sub-counters corresponding to the particular sub-counter group, a request to update a sub-counter value for the particular sub-counter group. In response to a request for a current count value of the event counter, the method may include outputting, by the computer, a sum of the sub-counter values for the plurality of sub-counter groups as the current count value.