ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,828, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).
"Executing of lock management functions to updating lock state data of a database system" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago), Richard George Wendel III (Cincinnati) and Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to maintain lock state data that includes a mapping of a plurality of lock state structures to a plurality of lock scope identifiers. Each of the plurality of lock state structures maintains a set of lock requests based on storing a queue of pending lock requests and a set of granted lock requests. A lock man...