99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY - A BYZANTINE FAULT-TOLERANT

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley researchers have developed and verified an approach to creating aself-stabilizing and Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol for distributed clocksynchronization systems. Distributed computing systems are finding increasing usage inapplications where individual nodes are operating independently, yet are linked into andserving the needs of a larger, more complex system. Clock synchronization is an exampleof a critical function for many distributedsystems, and thus, fault tolerance and self-stabilization of clock synchronization are ofkey importance.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.