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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Osagawa, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A list distribution station of a communication station includes processing circuitry to record, in a memory, a grand master list containing a station code of a grand master and a station code of a communication station synchronized with the grand master, and receive a priority notification frame which contains, as a sender station code, a station code of a present grand master in the communication system. The processing circuitry is further included to decide, when notified of the station code of the present grand master, whether or not to update the grand master list based on the notified station code of the present grand master and the grand master list, and upon having decided to update the grand master list, to update the station code of the present grand master station on the grand master list with the notified station code of the present grand master station.