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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
May. 06, 2021
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Itai Levy, Haifa, IL;
Dotan David Levi, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Nir Nitzani, Tel Aviv, IL;
Natan Manevich, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Alex Vaynman, Modiin, IL;
Ariel Almog, Kohav Yair, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network adapter includes a network port for communicating with a communication network, a hardware clock, and circuitry. The circuitry is coupled to receive from the communication network, via the network port, one or more time-protocol packets that convey a network time used for synchronizing network devices in the communication network, to align the hardware clock to the network time conveyed in the time-protocol packets, and to make the network time available to one or more time-service consumers running in a host served by the network adapter.