Patent ID: 11870868
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A common storage management device for a system including a common storage and at least two computers connected with each other by a closed network, the at least two computers including one computer configured to communicate with an outside computer, the at least two computers storing a plurality of applications configured to communicate with each other while executing on the at least two computers, the plurality of applications being configured to write data to and read data from the common storage, the common storage management device comprising:
at least one processor configured to
manage a reservation of a first storage space of the common storage in response to a first request from a first application of the plurality of applications executing on the at least two computers to reserve the first storage space of the common storage for storing first data, and
notify the first application of the plurality of applications of a second request from the common storage management device to reduce data size of the first data for which the first storage space is required to be reserved in response to the second request, when the first application requests to reserve the first storage space for the first data and free storage space of the common storage is insufficient for reserving the first storage space for the first data.