US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 30 for "Keeping stable leadership in raft-based protocol with fast automatic failover" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,309, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Keeping stable leadership in raft-based protocol with fast automatic failover" was invented by Leonid Novak (Castro Valley, Calif.), Lik Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sampanna Salunke (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node within a group of participant nodes begins an election by sending a vote request to the other nodes in the group. The vote request sets an input term argument to a future term value without incrementing the actual current term value. The current term value at each participant node is only incremented in r...