US Patent 7912922 Globally unique instance identification

Patent 7912922 was granted and assigned to Oracle on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Oracle

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7912922

Date of Patent

March 22, 2011

Patent Application Number

11463891

Date Filed

August 10, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Vivek Srivastava

Patent abstract

A net traffic optimization method provides for clients and servers to communicate with each other over a busy network. Each client process will make an Oracle database service request that is recognized by a listener process in the servers. As each database instance comes up, it generates a globally unique instance identifier (“UII”). Each UII remains valid as long as the database instance that generated it is running. The same UII identifier is given to every client needing a connection to that particular instance. Client processes can simultaneously or sequentially connect to database instances, and must never see the same UII being used to identify two different instances.