Patent ID: 11861416
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. One or more non-transitory computer-accessible storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more processors cause a first data accessor of a plurality of data accessors to:
acquire a first lock associated with a first critical section, wherein the first critical section comprises one or more operations including a first operation;
determine that a first help session associated with the first critical section has been initiated by a second data accessor of the plurality of data accessors, wherein the second data accessor holds a second lock associated with the first critical section, wherein the second lock is different from the first lock; and
join the first help session initiated by the second data accessor in response at least in part to determining that the first help session has been initiated, wherein to join the first help session the first data accessor implements at least one sub-operation of the first operation for the second data accessor.