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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2005
Jonathan R. Howell, Seattle, WA (US);
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
John R. Douceur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Leslie B. Lamport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan R. Howell, Seattle, WA (US);
Jacob R. Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
John R. Douceur, Bellevue, WA (US);
Leslie B. Lamport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Synchronized devices comprising a distributed system attempt to agree on a compatible sequence of commands to execute. Each device in the distributed system may act as a proposer, acceptor, or a learner. Each proposer proposes a command for each device to execute. The acceptors either accept or reject the proposed commands. The learners keep track of the proposed commands and determine, using a transactional substrate, whether the acceptors have a accepted sequences of commands that commute with respect to one another. Once the learners have determined that a quorum of acceptors have accepted sequences of commands that commute with respect to one another the accepted commands are executed by each device in the distributed system.