US Patent Issued to META PLATFORMS on June 23 for "Precision time protocol redundancy and load balancing across a set of active time servers" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,689, issued on June 23, was assigned to META PLATFORMS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Precision time protocol redundancy and load balancing across a set of active time servers" was invented by Michel Ouellette (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick Cullen (Dublin), Oleg Obleukhov (Dublin) and Alexander Bulimov (Cabinteely, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for achieving Precision Time Protocol (PTP) redundancy and load balancing across a set of active time servers deployed in a cluster is disclosed. The system may organize a set of PTP Grandmasters (GMs) (e.g., located in a datacenter) into a plurality of PTP clusters (e.g., for loa...