Appeal No. 1997-3429
Application 08/307,212
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-8.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a system and
method for reducing message traffic during a two phase
commitment protocol in a distributed transaction processing
system. Only subordinate coordinators that manage
modifiable or recoverable resources (resources that are not
read-only) dynamically register with the transaction
coordinator, which minimizes the size of the commit tree
thereby minimizing the number of messages transmitted during
commitment processing.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for coordinating resource modification
transaction requests to reduce message traffic in a
computer implemented transaction processing system, the
transaction processing system operating on one or more
processors each having a plurality of resources that
can be changed by said transaction processing system,
the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a transaction request to modify one or
more of said plurality of resources and assigning said
transaction a global identifier;
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