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Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2022
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hitoshi Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/0041 (2013.01); H04J 3/0667 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a requester unit configured to issue a request for transmission of a packet, a transfer unit configured to transfer the packet based on the request, a transmission unit configured to transmit the packet transferred by the transfer unit and to output a timestamp based on the transmission of the packet, and a control unit configured to control output of a tag associating the packet with the timestamp based on predetermined information that is read from an interface between the transfer unit and the transmission unit.


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