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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2005
Applicant:
Mark W. Bradley, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventor:
Mark W. Bradley, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
CA, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/526 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); G06F 17/30171 (2013.01); G06F 17/30362 (2013.01); G06F 2209/522 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for distributed locking for networked device management is provided. In one aspect, a lock is granted for a resource attached to a switched fabric, in response to receiving a request to access the resource. If the resource is already locked by another process or device, or otherwise unavailable, the request may be queued or failed.