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Number of patents: 1
Last date: March 24, 2009

Number	Title	Issue Date
7509448	Systems and methods for managing semantic locks In one embodiment, a system for managing semantic locks and semantic lock requests for a resource is provided. Access to the resource is controlled such that compatible lock requests can access the resource and incompatible lock requests are queued. ...	03/24/2009