Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-27
2008-05-27
Cottingham, John (Department: 2167)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07379952
ABSTRACT:
Remastering of shared resources among nodes in a cluster, while minimizing the time that such resources are unavailable for access, comprises dividing the shared resources being remastered into multiple “windows” and freezing and remastering one window at a time. The remastering windows are defined over one or more buckets associated with a hash table of resources. In clusters with unequally sized hash tables, an enhancement to the fundamental windowing approach utilizes a functionally specific hashing algorithm and a hash table size constraint to ensure that the set of all resources that hash to a given bucket in a hash table of a given size will hash precisely to the same bucket, plus a set of higher buckets which are well defined, in a node that has a larger hash table.
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Chan Wilson Wai Shun
Chandrasekaran Sashikanth
Yurek Tolga
Cottingham John
Hickman Palermo & Truong & Becker LLP
Oracle International Corporation
Reyes Mariela D
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