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Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stephen P. Cherniak, Bainbridge, NY (US);

Donald Crabtree, Port Ewen, NY (US);

John S. Houston, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2033 (2013.01); H04L 69/28 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01);
Abstract

An enhanced console assisted recovery capability provides an efficient technique for communicating the failure of a primary time server to the backup time server in order to provide fast failure recovery of a synchronized timing network with the intent of avoiding a complete network outage. The primary time server efficiently notifies the backup time server that the primary time server is about to become unavailable. The backup time server can then begin an immediate takeover of time serving to the synchronized network.


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