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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2016
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takatoshi Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object is to provide a relay apparatus capable of detecting a failure that occurs in the relay apparatus. A relay apparatus () according to the present disclosure includes a data reception unit () configured to receive a synchronizing packet transmitted from a master apparatus (), the synchronizing packet containing a time value and a time correction value for correcting the time value, an update unit () configured to update the time correction value based on a processing time for the synchronizing packet, and a determination unit () configured to determine whether or not a failure has occurred in a functional block related to a process for updating the time correction value by using a result of a comparison between a corrected time value and a reference time value, the corrected time value having been corrected by using the updated time correction value.