Appeal No. 2003-1770
Application No. 09/526,155
logic or instructions executable by the client computer for
evaluating lock requests, and the determination whether to grant
the requests is done without using a lock compatibility table.
Claims 1 and 12 are illustrative of the claimed invention, and
they read as follows:
1. A computer system, comprising:
at least one general purpose server computer;
at least one general purpose client computer;
a distributed data storage system accessible to at least the
client computer; and
logic executable by the client computer for undertaking
method acts to evaluate lock requests in the storage system, the
method acts comprising:
determining whether to grant a requested lock using at least
one algorithm without using a lock compatibility table, the lock
pertaining to at least one asset in the storage system.
12. A computer program device comprising:
a computer program storage device readable by a client
computer; and
a program on the program storage device and including
instructions executable by the client computer for evaluating a
request for a requested lock, the program comprising:
computer readable code means for determining whether to
grant the requested lock without using a lock compatibility
table, the requested lock pertaining to at least one asset in the
storage system.
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