Managing the size and accessibility of a name service
US6594702B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 25, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jul 15, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 25, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L61/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Provided herein is a name service that includes published data that is associated with one or more duration entities and one or more modification entities, enabling the name service to more efficiently manage access to published data. To publish data, a publishing client transmits a publication request to a name service. The publication request may specify a modification entity and a duration entity. The name service creates at least one name entry that associates the published data with the modification entity and the duration entity. There are several requests to modify or depublish published data that a name service will honor only when they originate from a modification entity. These are (1) requests to modify published data, and (2) requests to depublish published data. A name service depublishes published data based on the termination of the duration entity that is associated with the published data, when, for example, a garbage collector detects that the duration of an entity has ended. Name service recovery is performed on a system failure. The remaining name service daemons delete each name entry that is non-local and non-persistant, and transmit requests to replicate loca…
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