Method for synchronizing interconnected digital equipment
CA 2037012 C · Owner: Uyar, M. Umit · Inventors: Uyar, M. Umit; Near, Christopher D.
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Optimized synchronization planning and clock distribution for a network of interconnected digital equipment is achieved by designating a networknode at the highest stratum level as the master clock node forming a group of all, unassigned nodes connected to the assigned node or nodes selecting subgroup of all, nodes from the group wherein the subgroup includes all nodes having the highest stratum level of the group, limiting the subgroup to the nodes which have a desired characteristic when such nodes are included in the subgroup determining the, synchronization performance of each node in the subgroup according to a predetermined criterion, assigning one node from the subgroup as a clock …
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- Filed February 25, 1991 and granted October 22, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 25, 2011.
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