MASTER LOCK

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
MASTERLOC	AMSTED INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED	180 N. STETSON AVE., SUITE 1800 TWO PRUDENTIAL PLAZA CHICAGO IL 60601	MASTER LOCK;FIFTH WHEEL COUPLING UNITS FOR TRACTOR-TRAILERS;
MASTERLOCK	WINFIELD SOLUTIONS	4001 Lexington Avenue North Arden Hills MN 55126	MASTER LOCK;Adjuvants for use with pesticides;
MASTERLOCK	MEDISYSTEMS CORPORATION	439 South Union Street 5th Floor Lawrence MA 01843	MASTER LOCK;Medical connectors for use in extracorporeal blood treatments;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

An apparatus for and method of providing failure recovery from redundancy, notwithstanding that the failed subsystem and its replacement have differing capacities. This is especially useful when implementing a cluster lock processing system having a relatively large number of commodity instruction processors which are managed by a highly scalable, cluster lock manager. Reliability is built into the managing communication processor by dividing the system into master and slave subsystems. The master has primary responsibility for system management and coordination, whereas the slave has primary responsibility to backup the master and be prepared to assume management responsibility. Upon the need to transfer responsibility from the master to the slave, whether it be manual (e.g., maintenance) or automatic (e.g., failure), the only concern is that the slave has sufficient capacity to accept the current level of processing, even though it does not have the same level of capacity as the master.