US Patent Issued to CLOUDERA on March 18 for "Ensuring properly ordered events in a distributed computing environment" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,978, issued on March 18, was assigned to CLOUDERA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ensuring properly ordered events in a distributed computing environment" was invented by David Alves (Austin, Texas) and Todd Lipcon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first event occurs at a first computer at a first time, as measured by a local clock. A second event is initiated at a second computer by sending a message that includes the first time. The second event occurs at a second time, as measured by a local clock. Because of clock error, the first time is later than the second time. Based on the first time being later than the second ...