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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2004
John Philip Maccormick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Philip MacCormick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for calculating a probability distribution that represents probabilities of occurrence of time differences between causally related incoming messages and outgoing messages of a node in a system of communicating nodes is described. The method comprises obtaining a set of time differences between times at which incoming messages arrive at a node and times at which outgoing messages leave the node, the set of time differences including time differences between causally related incoming messages and outgoing messages and time differences between incoming messages and outgoing messages that are not causally related. The method also comprises processing the set of time differences using a statistical estimation algorithm to calculate the probability distribution that represents probabilities of occurrence of time differences between causally related incoming messages and outgoing messages. An apparatus configured to execute the methods is also described.