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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2001
Michael Kendrick Reiter, Raritan, NJ (US);
Gregory Chockler, Zur Hadassa, IL;
Dahlia Malkhi, Jerusalem, IL;
Michael Kendrick Reiter, Raritan, NJ (US);
Gregory Chockler, Zur Hadassa, IL;
Dahlia Malkhi, Jerusalem, IL;
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, unknown;
Abstract
A system for and method of implementing a backoff protocol and a computer network incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a client subsystem that generates a request for access to a shared resource and (2) a server subsystem that receives the request, returns a LOCKED indicator upon an expectation that the shared resource is unavailable and otherwise returns a FREE indicator, the client subsystem responding to the LOCKED indicator by waiting before regenerating the request for the access.