Node-indexed system, apparatus and method configured to sequence client events within a peer-to-peer network

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, and methods for tracking and sequencing client events in a federated computer network are discussed herein. Various embodiments provide a computer-implemented method for assigning timestamps to client events received by nodes within the network and appending node identifiers to the timestamps to create node time signatures for the client events to facilitate updating of a client event database. Still other embodiments provide methods for comparing a last event node time signature to a recently received node time signature and generating an updated node time signature in view of the same. Such embodiments address client event sequencing problems that tend to plague federated and distributed networks as they expand in scale, geographic distribution, complexity, and involve programmatic client event generating services such as credential management services.