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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amit Meena, Pune, IN;
Ashish Agrawal, Pune, IN;
Priyanka Malode, Pune, IN;
Mandar Phatak, Pune, IN;
Ankit Bhartiya, Pune, IN;
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Ephemeral distributed locking in microservice systems is disclosed, A disclosed example system to manage microservices of a shared resource system includes interface circuitry, programmable circuitry, machine readable instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: permit a first container to lock a microservice based on an annotation of the first container, the annotation corresponding to a request for utilization of locking semantics to lock the microservice, after the microservice is locked for use by the first container, prevent a second container requesting utilization of the locking semantics to lock the microservice based on the microservice being locked to the first container, and, after expiration of a time period, release the microservice from being locked for use by the first container.