G06F 16/2343
Locking methods
Official title: {Locking methods, e.g. distributed locking or locking implementation details}
G06F16/2343 (Locking methods) appears on 1,036 US grants and 955 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
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- Continuous database locking during database reconfiguration15 Sep 2026US 12,737,266 B2Oracle International Corporation
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- Database systems and constraint management methods with instance variable binding8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310649 A1Salesforce, Inc.
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- Blockchain node and transaction information processing method applied to blockchain node17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277872 A1Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for administering a meta database as an integral component of an information server474US 6,061,692 AMicrosoft Corporation · 2000
- Locking technique for control and synchronization367US 6,973,549 B1Incipient, Inc. · 2005
- Method and apparatus providing optimistic locking of shared computer resources299US 6,850,938 B1Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2005
- Object oriented database management system298US 5,838,965 ACADIS, Inc. · 1998
- Intelligent page store for concurrent and consistent access to a database by a transaction processor and a query processor259US 5,317,731 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1994