Patent ID: 9529923
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory including an instance of a distributed database at a first compute device configured to be included within a plurality of compute devices that implements the distributed database via a network operatively coupled to the plurality of compute devices; and a processor operatively coupled to the instance of the distributed database, the processor configured to define, at a first time, a first event linked to a first plurality of events, each event from the first plurality of events being a sequence of bytes, the processor configured to receive, at a second time after the first time and from a second compute device from the plurality of compute devices, a signal representing a second event (1) defined by the second compute device and (2) linked to a second plurality of events, each event from the second plurality of events being a sequence of bytes, the processor configured to identify an order associated with a third plurality of events based at least on a result of a protocol, each event from the third plurality of events being from at least one of the first plurality of events or the second plurality of events, the processor configured to store in the instance of the distributed database the order associated with the third plurality of events.