Patent ID: 9619542
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for obtaining an entry from an application-state, distributed replication table partitioned across a cluster of nodes, the method comprising: establishing across each node in a cluster of nodes an application-state, distributed replication table comprising entries to track resources of applications across the cluster of nodes, each of the nodes in the cluster of nodes owning one or more partitions of the application-state, distributed replication table; replicating, by a first node in the cluster of nodes, an entry of the application-state, distributed replication table stored at the first node to at least one node in a replication chain comprising a plurality of nodes to which the first node in the cluster of nodes replicates the entries in the one or more partitions owned by the first node; determining, by a second node in the cluster of nodes, that a copy of the entry stored on the second node is out of date; transmitting, by the second node in the cluster of nodes, a request for a copy of the replicated entry to at least one of the plurality of nodes in the replication chain; and updating, by the second node in the cluster of nodes, the outdated entry with the copy of the replicated entry.