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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2002
Applicants:

Brent A. Kingsbury, Beaverton, OR (US);

Sam Revitch, Portland, OR (US);

Terence M. Rokop, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Inventors:

Brent A. Kingsbury, Beaverton, OR (US);

Sam Revitch, Portland, OR (US);

Terence M. Rokop, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

PolyServe, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for providing journal recovery in a multi-node environment which comprises determining whether a block was last updated by a first node; determining whether the block is associated with a lock held by a second node; and writing the block to a final location if the block is not associated with a lock held by the second node. In another embodiment, a system and method are disclosed for providing journal recovery in a multi-node environment which comprises determining whether a block is associated with metadata; determining whether the block is associated with a lock held by a surviving node; and writing the block to a final location if the block is not associated with a lock held by the surviving node.


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