US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 3 for "Global secondary path locking technique enabling high read concurrency for read-mostly workloads" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,414, issued on June 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Global secondary path locking technique enabling high read concurrency for read-mostly workloads" was invented by Alex Kogan (Needham, Mass.) and David Dice (Foxboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reader of a set of data accessors that includes readers and writer detects that a particular lock of a first collection of non-global locks associated with a data object of a computing environment is held by another accessor. After checking a blocking indicator, the reader uses a second lock (which is not part of the first collection) to obtai...