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Method for synchronizing transaction processing in a distributed heterogeneous system

US5561797A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 18, 1995
Grant dateOct 1, 1996
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Expiry dateApr 18, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/466
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides transaction synchronization in the form of COMMIT processing in a distributed, heterogeneous database system wherein some resources are synchronized to a transaction by a single-phase commit procedures while other resources synchronize by multi-phase commit procedures. The invention invests an application requestor at an application site with authority to represent all single-phase commit resources in multi-phase commit processing.

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