Intelligent merging of transactions based on a variety of criteria

An apparatus and methods are disclosed for intelligently determining when to merge transactions to backup storage. In particular, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment, queued transactions may be merged based on a variety of criteria, including, but not limited to, one or more of the follow...

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Main Authors BOYLE, III FRANK JOHN, KRISHNAN PARAMESHWARAN, KRISHNAKUMAR ANJUR SUNDARESAN, BENTLEY JON LOUIS, YAJNIK SHALINI, MEINERS JOHN H, SINGH NAVJOT
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 10.06.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An apparatus and methods are disclosed for intelligently determining when to merge transactions to backup storage. In particular, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment, queued transactions may be merged based on a variety of criteria, including, but not limited to, one or more of the following: the number of queued transactions; the rate of growth of the number of queued transactions; the calendrical time; estimates of the time required to execute the individual transactions; a measure of importance of the individual transactions; the transaction types of the individual transactions; a measure of importance of one or more data updated by the individual transactions; a measure of availability of one or more resources; a current estimate of the time penalty associated with shadowing a page of memory; and the probability of rollback for the individual transactions, and for the merged transaction.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20100722230