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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Hochschild, New York, NY (US);
Alexander Lloyd, New York, NY (US);
Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh, Syosset, NY (US);
Robert Edman Felderman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Michael James Boyer Epstein, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present technology proposes techniques for generating globally coherent timestamps. This technology may allow distributed systems to causally order transactions without incurring various types of communication delays inherent in explicit synchronization. By globally deploying a number of time masters that are based on various types of time references, the time masters may serve as primary time references. Through an interactive interface, the techniques may track, calculate and record data relative to each time master thus providing the distributed systems with causal timestamps.