Patent ID: 11868198
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
initializing, by a computer included in a computer system, an event counter that includes a plurality of sub-counter groups, each plurality of sub-counter groups including at least two sub-counters located on different nodes of a plurality of nodes in the computer system;
in response to an occurrence of an event associated with the event counter:
selecting, by the computer, a particular sub-counter group of the plurality of sub-counter groups to update; and
sending, by the computer to at least two sub-counters located on different nodes and included in the particular sub-counter group, a request to concurrently update respective copies of a sub-counter value for the particular sub-counter group; and

in response to a request for a current count value of the event counter, outputting a sum of the sub-counter values for the plurality of sub-counter groups as the current count value.