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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:
Jul. 17, 2012

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2007
Applicants:

Juan Loaiza, Redwood City, CA (US);

Sashikanth Chandrasekaran, Belmont, CA (US);

Neil Macnaughton, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Juan Loaiza, Redwood City, CA (US);

Sashikanth Chandrasekaran, Belmont, CA (US);

Neil MacNaughton, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Described herein are techniques for global synchronization that under various scenarios eliminate or defer the acquisition of global locks. In many cases, the need to acquire global locks is eliminated, thereby saving the overhead attendant to processing global locks.


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