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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);

Inventors:

Shankar V. Achanta, Pullman, WA (US);

Srinivas Achanta, Pullman, WA (US);

David E. Whitehead, Pullman, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0638 (2013.01); H04J 3/0644 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

The time signal verification and distribution device disclosed herein verifies and distributes a time signal to consuming devices. The device determines a time quality status of a first and second time signal, calculates a difference between a first and a second time signal, and compares the difference to a predetermined threshold. Based on the time quality status and the comparison, the time signal verification and distribution device distributes a time signal to a plurality of time signal consuming devices. Exceeding the predetermined threshold may indicate a spoofing attack or other problem with the time signals.


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