Patent 11169842 was granted and assigned to Open Invention Network on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system, apparatus, and method for thread synchronization is provided. In one embodiment, a network system receives a signal from a first computing machine, and determines whether one or more processes are waiting for the signal. The network system also transmits the signal to one of the one or more processes on the first computing machine or a second computing machine to execute a thread of the process.