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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Stewart Frederick Bryant, Redhill, GB;
Ian Michael Charles Shand, Cobham, GB;
Inventors:
Stewart Frederick Bryant, Redhill, GB;
Ian Michael Charles Shand, Cobham, GB;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0679 (2013.01); H04J 3/0632 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus for providing clock synchronization in a packet-based network, the network having as components nodes and links therebetween and having a network topology, is arranged to compute a forward clock synchronization packet path to a synchronization destination from the network topology according to a computation rule such that the return path for a clock synchronization packet from the synchronization destination is the same as the forward path.