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Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Tick Tock Networks, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yilong Geng, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Deepak Merugu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Balaji S. Prabhakar, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

TICK TOCK NETWORKS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 7/033 (2006.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01); H03L 7/087 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/033 (2013.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01); H03L 7/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for syntonizing machines in a network. A coordinator accesses probe records for probes transmitted at different times between pairs of machines in the mesh network. For different pairs of machines, the coordinator estimates the drift between the pair of machines based on the transit times of probes transmitted between the pair of machines as indicated by the probe records. For different loops of at least three machines in the mesh network, the coordinator calculates a loop drift error based on a sum of the estimated drifts between pairs of machines around the loop and adjusts the estimated absolute drifts of the machines based on the loop drift errors. Here, the absolute drift is defined relative to a drift of a reference machine.


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