Patent ID: 11892975
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:
determining, by the snapshotting agent, that the collection of the respective local snapshots does not represent the global consistent snapshot;
receiving, by the snapshotting agent, at least one different respective local snapshot for one or more of the plurality of processes;
replacing, by the snapshotting agent, at least one respective local snapshot in the collection with the at least one different respective local snapshot; and
determining, by the snapshotting agent, whether the collection modified to include the at least one different respective local snapshot represents the global consistent snapshot for the distributed system based at least in part on a comparison of the respective values of the corresponding vector clocks.