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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2003
Louise E. Moser, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Peter M. Melliar-smith, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Louise E. Moser, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Peter M. Melliar-Smith, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Eternal Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms for achieving consistent message ordering within a fault-tolerant distributed computer system based on semi-active or passive replication are described. The mechanisms communicate message ordering information from the primary replica to its backup replicas in such a way as to minimize the end-to-end request/response time, to minimize the number of additional messages that are multicast, and to ensure that, in the event of a fault, a backup replica has, or can obtain, the messages and the message ordering information that it needs to reproduce the actions of the primary replica.