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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2005
Applicants:
Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark S. Moir, Hampton, NH (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Guy L. Steele, Lexington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark S. Moir, Hampton, NH (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Guy L. Steele, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer system implementing transient blocking synchronization allows a memory location leased by a first process to be read-accessible to another process. In other words, more than one thread may have read-only type leases on a given memory location at a given time. Such 'shared' leases expire when respective lease periods of the shared leases elapse.