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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Kuei-yu Wang-knop, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J. Curran, West Hurley, NY (US);
Radha R. Kandadai, Lake Katrine, NY (US);
Kuei-Yu Wang-Knop, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J. Curran, West Hurley, NY (US);
Radha R. Kandadai, Lake Katrine, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for continuing node operations in quorum-based protocols. This is particularly valuable in the situation in which a group of nodes includes only two nodes and in which communications to a node is lost. Provision is made for adding additional status indications to each node indicating whether or not it is enabled for single-node quorum operation. Provision is also made for identifying one node as a primary node and another node as a secondary node for time-out response purposes.