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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Romain Guignard, Rennes, FR;
Yacine El Kolli, Rennes, FR;
Tristan Halna Du Fretay, Langan, FR;
Lionel Tocze, Saint Domineuc, FR;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of synchronization of a communication device comprising a first and second communication ports, each of the first and second communication port being associated with a respective first and second time system, the method comprising a regular master synchronization process synchronizing regularly the first time system with an external synchronization server according to a time synchronization protocol; a regular slave synchronization process synchronizing regularly the second time system with the first-time system; detecting a loss of synchronization between the first and second time system; determining which of the first and second time system is desynchronized; and synchronizing the desynchronized time system with the other one.