US Patent Issued to Clockwork Systems on July 15 for "Clock-synchronized edge-based network functions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,015, issued on July 15, was assigned to Clockwork Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Clock-synchronized edge-based network functions" was invented by Yilong Geng (Menlo Park, Calif.), Balaji S. Prabhakar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shiyu Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network traffic is monitored to coordinate control of data flows and detect anomalies. For a data flow transmitted between sender and receiver hosts, pre-defined amounts of sent and received network traffic of the data flow is recorded. The data flow is monitored, based on time stamps of data packets in the network traffic, for an anomaly. Respons...