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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Paul R. Gloudemans, Flanders, NJ (US);
Dominick Imbesi, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Joseph Punturieri, Staten Island, NY (US);
Agere Systems Guardian Corp., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for maintaining the relative timing between each of a series of datastreams generated at a first site and transmitted to a second site including the steps of selecting a pulse generated by a clock having a time reference such as time-of-day and marking it with a descriptor. The descriptor and the time reference of the pulse are then transmitted to the second site. Next, a sample, that occurs after the pulse, is identified for each of the datastreams. An offset from the pulse to the next sample is then calculated for each of the datastreams. Next, the descriptor, a pointer to the next sample and the offset for each of the datastrearns is transmitted together with the corresponding datastreams to the second site. Using the pointer, the next sample in each of the datastreams is then located. Finally, the relative timing of each of the series of datastreams is reconstructed based on the next sample and the offset.