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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
May. 18, 2021
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark M. Ingerman, Newton, MA (US);
Robert B. Bird, Orlando, FL (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A distributed computing system provides a distributed data store for network enabled devices at the edge. The distributed database is partitioned such that each node in the system has its own partition and some number of followers that replicate the data in the partition. The data in the partition is typically used in providing services to network enabled devices from the edge. The set of data for a particular network enabled device is owned by the node to which the network enabled device connects. Ownership of the data (and the data itself) may move around the distributed computing system to different nodes, e.g., for load balancing, fault-resilience, and/or due to device movement. Security/health checks are enforced at the edge as part of a process of transferring data ownership, thereby providing a mechanism to mitigate compromised or malfunctioning network enabled devices.