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United States Patent | 6,081,813 |
Wollrath ,   et al. | June 27, 2000 |
In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for allocating and deallocating resources in a distributed processing system having a requester platform and a server platform. The process involves receiving a request from the requestor platform referring to a system resource and specifying a requested lease period, permitting shared access to the system resource for a lease period, sending a return call to the requestor platform advising of the lease period, and deallocating the system resource when the lease period expires.
Inventors: | Wollrath; Ann M. (Groton, MA); Waldo; James H. (Dracut, MA); Riggs; Roger (Burlington, MA) |
Assignee: | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 152062 |
Filed: | September 11, 1998 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 017/30 |
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