METHOD AND APPARATUS FAULT TOLERANT SHARED MEMORY

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APP PUB NO 20020138704A1
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09213300

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A method and apparatus for providing paired or shadowed shared memory within UNIX and UNIX-like environments is provided. For the present invention shared memory segments, established using System V-like shared memory commands, are registered or paired. Once paired checkpointing operations may be performed by pushing or pulling data between paired segments. These checkpointing operations may be synchronous or asynchronous. The present invention also allows client processes to determine the status of shared memory segments and the status of checkpointing requests.

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COMPAQ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES GROUP L P20555 STATE HIGHWAY 249 HOUSTON TX 77070

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
ALEXANDER, JAMES R AUSTIN, TX 13 398
DAVIDSON, THOMAS J AUSTIN, TX 9 491
GORDON, GLEN W AUSTIN, TX 3 112
HISER, STEPHEN W ROUND ROCK, TX 1 29
JEWETT, DOUGLAS E ROUND ROCK, TX 16 1591
MILLER, STEPHEN H ROUND ROCK, TX 29 624
SONNIER, DAVID P AUSTIN, TX 58 1788

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