Patents Assigned to Hebrew University
  • Backoff protocols and methods for distributed mutual exclusion and ordering
    Patent number: 7155524
    Abstract: A system for and method of implementing a backoff protocol and a computer network incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a client subsystem that generates a request for access to a shared resource and (2) a server subsystem that receives the request, returns a LOCKED indicator upon an expectation that the shared resource is unavailable and otherwise returns a FREE indicator, the client subsystem responding to the LOCKED indicator by waiting before regenerating the request for the access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignees: Lucent Technologies Inc., Hebrew University
    Inventors: Michael Kendrick Reiter, Gregory Chockler, Dahlia Malkhi