Server-side connection resource pooling

US8713186B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

• Lakshminarayanan Chidambaran · San Jose, US
• Srinath Krishnaswamy · Redwood City, US
• Krishna Mohan Itikarlapalli · Bengaluru, IN
• Kevin S. Neel · San Mateo, US
• Sreekumar K. Seshadri · Bengaluru, IN
• Jonathan Giloni · Foster City, US
• Scot McKinley · Belmont, US
• Ravi Shankar Thammaiah · Redwood City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 2008
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/562
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A server side connection pool provides pooling of server connections. Thus, client side processes do not create groups of dedicated resources. Clients are provided the capability to communicate to a server side connection broker process to GET a pooled server connection comprising connection state plus a thread of execution for doing some work, whereby requesting the work can bypass the connection broker process and go directly to the assigned pooled connection. Once the client issues a RELEASE to release the pooled connection back to the pool, a completely different client process on potentially a different client middle tier machine can reuse the same pooled connection. The server-side connection pool can be logically partitioned into sub-pools that correspond to connection classes that typically correspond to respective applications. A client process can request a pooled connection having a particular state, where a stored procedure can be executed to generate such state.