US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 7 for "System and method for increased transaction throughput and improved response time under high contention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,937, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for increased transaction throughput and improved response time under high contention" was invented by Vasudha Krishnaswamy (Fremont, Calif.), Dieter Gawlick (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Weiwei Gong (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Lock-Free Reservation mechanism is provided. When a transaction issues an update that affects a value in a "reservable column" of a row, the database server does not immediately obtain a lock that covers the row. Instead, the database server adds a...