US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 21 for "Global clock overhead with asymmetric waiting time" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,349, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Global clock overhead with asymmetric waiting time" was invented by Ronen Grosman (Kanata, Canada) and Huaxin Zhang (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and system for assigning a commit sequence number (CSN) to a WRITE transaction in a network having nodes and a global time server. The CSN is defined by a timestamp of the WRITE transaction and an error bound of the timestamp. The WRITE transaction is committed after the timestamp is issued and an amount of time equal to the error bound plus a time adjust value has pa...