Patents by Inventor Edward A. Heeren

Edward A. Heeren has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for providing a distributed transaction lock in a transactional middleware machine environment
    Patent number: 9389907
    Abstract: A system and method can support a distributed transaction lock in a transactional middleware machine environment. The system can use a global transaction identifier to locate a hash bucket in a transaction hash table, wherein the transaction hash table contains a plurality of hash buckets. Then, the system can lock said hash bucket in the transaction hash table, and allow only one process to access one or more global transaction entry structures in the transaction table before said hash bucket is unlocked, wherein said one or more global transaction entry structures are associated with the locked hash bucket in the transaction hash table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Todd J. Little, Edward A. Heeren, Jimin Cai, Xiangdong Li, Yunrong Zheng
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION LOCK IN A TRANSACTIONAL MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20150317183
    Abstract: A system and method can support a distributed transaction lock in a transactional middleware machine environment. The system can use a global transaction identifier to locate a hash bucket in a transaction hash table, wherein the transaction hash table contains a plurality of hash buckets. Then, the system can lock said hash bucket in the transaction hash table, and allow only one process to access one or more global transaction entry structures in the transaction table before said hash bucket is unlocked, wherein said one or more global transaction entry structures are associated with the locked hash bucket in the transaction hash table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Todd J. Little, Edward A. Heeren, Jimin Cai, Xiangdong Li, Yunrong Zheng