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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1993
Filed:
May. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Curtis, Hudson, MA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364562 ; 364569 ; 34082549 ; 370 17 ; 379 24 ; 379 25 ;
Abstract
A system for determining the physical location of nodes on a network. The system includes two stations each of which has a clock. Each station uses its clock to determine the arrival times at the station of a packet transmitted over the network from a first node to a second node and of a reply packet sent by the second node to the first node. The arrival times of the packets and the corresponding reply packets are then used to calculate the distance along the network which separates the first and second node. Measurement of packet arrival times for all of the nodes yields the position of all of the nodes on the network.