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Reporting time progress on events written to a stream storage system

US11163484B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMay 27, 2020
Grant dateNov 2, 2021
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Expiry dateMay 27, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0673
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Reporting time progress for written events on a stream is disclosed. The system comprises operations for obtaining time report information comprising respective timestamp information and respective positional offset information for respective writers with respect to events written to a stream by the respective writers. The operations further comprise aggregating the time report information and determining a lowerbound, e.g., a minimum timestamp before which new events to be written by the stream storage system will no longer arrive, and determining an upperbound, e.g., a stream offset representative of an overall offset of the events written thus far in the stream. The operations further comprise storing the minimum timestamp and the stream offset in a data structure for the events written thus far.

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