US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on April 15 for "Time offset determination without synchronization" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,696, issued on April 15, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time offset determination without synchronization" was invented by David C. A. Snowdon (Sydney) and David J. Mirabito (Camperdown, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for the post-adjustment (i.e., offline) of event timestamps to implement virtual time synchronization amongst detection node clocks. In existing methodologies with the goal of clock synchronization, clocks (and timestamps generated therefrom) are disciplined or adjusted at the recordation time of the events on a detection node (e.g., a switch/router, an Internet...