US 10,678,694 B2 · System and method for creating time-accurate event streams

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention may provide an improved distributed computing system. Entities in the distributed computing system may be divided into four categories: writers, readers, gateways, and applications. End users may interact with the system via the applications through the gateways. The role of writers and readers may be separated to distribute computational burdens. Writers may generate messages for an event stream. The messages may include a timestamp for consistent global ordering. The readers may arrange messages from various writers based on the timestamps to generate globally time-consistent event streams.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A distributed computing system, comprising:

a plurality of writers, each writer to generate messages and attach a timestamp to the messages;
and
a plurality of readers that are separate from the plurality of writers, at least one reader to subscribe to at least two writers of the plurality of writers and the at least one reader to receive messages from the at least two writers to which it is subscribed and to generate an event stream by arranging the messages from the at least two writers in chronological order based on the timestamps attached to the messages.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/687,707Filed 28 Aug 2017 · us provisional application

Priority

2 Sep 2016

Published

US 2018/0067864 A18 Mar 2018

Granted

9 Jun 2020

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06F 9/542
Interprogram communication: event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
G01R 22/063
Details of electronic electricity meters: related to remote communication
G06F 9/546
Interprogram communication: message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
G06F 12/0868
For peripheral storage systems, e.g. disk cache: data transfer between cache memory and other subsystems, e.g. storage devices or host systems

System and method for creating time-accurate event streams

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System and method for creating time-accurate event streams

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Abstract

Claims27