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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yakov Kamen, Los Altos, CA (US);

Yury Kamen, Foster City, CA (US);

Alex Wilms, Hayward, CA (US);

Ankur Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David Gofman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Danjue Li, Dublin, CA (US);

Stanley Chernavsky, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); H04N 21/8547 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/065 (2013.01); G06F 11/2082 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01); H04N 21/8547 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure describes methods and systems for performing time synchronization in a heterogeneous system. In one example, a method includes, for each secondary device of one or more secondary devices in a network, determining, by a computing system, one or more time synchronization characteristics for the respective secondary device; and generating, by the computing system and based on at least the respective one or more time synchronization characteristics for each respective secondary device of the one or more secondary devices in the network, a time synchronization report for the network, wherein the one or more time synchronization characteristics include health data for the one or more secondary device.


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