Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for measuring clock skew on a network
- Patent Title (中): 用于测量网络上的时钟偏移的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12357636Application Date: 2009-01-22
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Publication No.: US08108557B2Publication Date: 2012-01-31
- Inventor: Eric A. Anderson
- Applicant: Eric A. Anderson
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16

Abstract:
A system and method for measuring clock skew in a network is disclosed. The method comprises sending an echo message at a periodic rate from a plurality of servers in the network to an anchor server. A reply message can be sent from the anchor server to each server that includes a remote timestamp based on the anchor server clock. The remote timestamp can be recorded at each of the servers. A send timestamp that designates a time the echo message was sent and a receive timestamp that designates a time the reply message was received at the server can then be recorded. An estimated clock time of each server may also be calculated relative to the anchor server using the send and receive timestamps. A clock skew value can be determined by subtracting the estimated clock time of each server from the remote timestamp time. Interpolation can then performed between the clock skew values over a selected portion of the period of time to enable clock skew values to be estimated over the selected portion of time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100185781A1 System and Method for Measuring Clock Skew on a Network Public/Granted day:2010-07-22
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