Method for controlling the locking and unlocking of system resources in a shared resource distributed computing environment

Patent 5734909 Issued on March 31, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 1, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Bennett, Robert Bradley

Application

No. 522689 filed on 09/01/1995

US Classes:

710/200, ACCESS LOCKING707/8, Concurrency (e.g., lock management in shared database)709/229, Network resources access controlling711/152Memory access blocking

Examiners

Primary: Harvey, Jack B.
Assistant: Etienne, Ario

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Goldman; Richard M.

International Class

G06F 012/14

Abstract

A method of and system for optimizing process utilization in a shared resource environment that avoids holding system processes while requests are queued or waiting for system resources. Information about a waiting request is retained in control structures; then the same process that frees a resource is utilized to respond to queued requests for that resource. The effect is to minimize the retention and/or allocation of processes and their associated system resource requirements. The same method is applied to the synchronization of interprocess communications.