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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mounish S. Desai, Columbia, SC (US);
Assignee:
Steeleye Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A distributed locking system and method for a clustered system having a distributed system for storing cluster configuration information is provided. One aspect of the present invention allows a process or thread in a high availability solution to obtain a distributed lock on all relevant nodes in a clustered system. Another aspect of the present invention allows more than one thread to obtain a lock and perform a critical operation on different nodes concurrently.