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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Stephen R. Guendert, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
John S. Houston, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Donald Crabtree, Port Ewen, NY (US);
Stephen P. Cherniak, Bainbridge, NY (US);
Paul Wojciak, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A time server of a coordinated timing network (CTN) receives a command, including a primary-reference-time (PRT) source identifier identifying a time source in use for the server time protocol (STP) facility as a precision-time-protocol (PTP) time server. The time server obtains the primary-reference-time source identifier from the command, and distributes the primary-reference-time source identifier obtained from the command to one or more other servers of the coordinated timing network to facilitate processing within the coordinated timing network.