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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Masato Maeda, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rachel Slater, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexander Brannon Carswell, Redmond, WA (US);
Farzam Tafreshian, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A conditional locking system receives, from a request source, a request to execute an operation on a target resource on behalf of a client thread. The system generates a unique key based on an attribute of the request and searches a concurrency dictionary for an entry identifying the unique key. In response to determining that the concurrency dictionary does include an entry identifying the unique key, the system identifies a lock object associated in the entry with the unique key and transmits a request to acquire the lock object. Once the lock object associated with the unique key has been acquired on behalf of the client thread, the system transmits a lock acquisition confirmation to the request source.