Patent ID: 9122686
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a first server node; a second server node; a first naming service and a second naming service executing, using one or more processors, in the first server node and the second server node respectively, wherein the first naming service includes a first replication engine to replicate global naming data from the first server node to the second server node, and the second naming service includes a second replication engine to replicate the global naming data from the second server node to the first server node, the global naming data comprising objects resulting from naming operations; and an identifier generator (IDG) to generate global unique identifiers (GUIDS) for the global naming data, wherein the IDG is located in the first naming service and generates the GUIDS from a server identifier of a creating server, a consecutive number of the global naming data, and context.