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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2020
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Bryan Fink, San Jose, CA (US);
Ittai Abraham, Tel Aviv, IL;
Guy Golan Gueta, Holon, IL;
Andrew Joseph Stone, Malden, MA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); H04J 3/065 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract
A blockchain network include nodes that are configured as time sources. These time-source nodes broadcast respective updates of their local times to all nodes in the blockchain network. Each node computes a summary time value based on the received local time values so that each node uses the same summary time to maintain their respective copies of the blockchain.