Patent ID: 11882183
Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA, LTD.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC G  H

Claim 3:
4. The system as recited in claim 1, the operations further comprising:
determining that the first computing device is a leader of a second partition group corresponding to a second partition of the multiple partitions, the second partition group including a plurality of second computing devices of the plurality of computing devices;
determining a second time threshold for another heartbeat communication to be sent to the plurality of second computing devices in the second partition group, wherein the second time threshold is based on timing of a prior heartbeat communication sent to the plurality of second computing devices and is different from the first time threshold;
selecting another random time before the second time threshold to send the other heartbeat communication; and
sending, to the plurality of second computing devices in the second partition group, according to the selected other random time, the other heartbeat communication.