ALLOCATING PRIORITIES TO PREVENT DEADLOCKS IN A STORAGE SYSTEM

Patent №

US 8,560,524

Granted

2013-10-15

Filed 2008

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12261064

One embodiment is a server in a cluster storage system. The server includes a Global Lock Manager (GLM) that receives requests for lock priorities for transactions from local lock manager (LLMs) in the cluster storage system. The GLM prevents deadlocks in the cluster storage system by issuing groups of priorities for transactions to the LLMs.

AI classification

AI hardware0.96
Planning0.94
Machine learning0.05
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 217590268

Assignors

KINGSBURY, BRENT, ROKOP, TERENCE

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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