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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2018
Trabus Technologies, San Diego, CA (US);
Roy Franklin Quick, Jr., San Diego, CA (US);
Trabus Technologies, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for communication in a network having a plurality of transceiver units are provided. The method can include transmitting by each transceiver unit (TU), a first broadcast message including a unique identifier of a respective TU and a network timing source identifier indicating the unique identifier of a TU upon which the respective TU relies for network time. The method can include receiving at the plurality of TUs, the first broadcast messages from one or more of the plurality of TUs. The method can include selecting, by each TU, a network timing source from among the plurality of TUs based on the unique identifiers and the network timing source identifiers. The network timing source can serve as the timing source for communications within the network.