Patent ID: 11894677
Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the consensus value comprises:
weighting one or more of the quantized values of the ordered set of quantized values for one or more of the plurality of network nodes based at least in part on a function of respective values of the second set of data for the one or more of the plurality of network nodes, a function of a difference between the ordered set of quantized values for a previous determination of the consensus value and the previously determined consensus value, an amount of traffic communicated via the one or more of the plurality of network nodes, a connectivity metric for the one or more of the plurality of network nodes, a relative network impact of unavailability of the one or more of the plurality of network nodes, or a combination thereof.