Patent ID: 11947534
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 11, wherein at said first time instance all of said plurality of pool connections are indicated to be allocated to respective physical connections, said actions further comprising:
waiting for a third physical connection to a second shard to become idle, wherein a physical connection is deemed to be idle upon not being used by any thread for a pre-specified duration;
terminating said third physical connection to said second shard;
establishing said third physical connection to said first shard based on a third pool connection on which said third physical connection was previously established; and
changing an entry corresponding to said third pool connection to indicate that said third physical connection is established to said first shard as a part end-to-end connection for said first thread, and said status to indicate that said third physical connection is thereafter busy.