US Patent Issued to Spirent Communications on Oct. 7 for "One way latency estimation without clock synchronization" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,799, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Spirent Communications Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"One way latency estimation without clock synchronization" was invented by Timothy John Dellinger (Frederick, Md.) and Joel Padulles Pubill (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining whether clock skew may exist between a sending node and a remote node during two-way network testing (using protocols such as TWAMP), and a computational method for revising measured latency data to compensate for clock differences.The method for compensating for clock skew comprises monitoring the network latency between two nodes duri...