ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,685, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"PTP 1-step boundary clock without hardware synchronization" was invented by Sourabh Bollapragada (Burnaby, Canada), Jeff Jing Yuen Chan (Burnaby, Canada), Avininderpal Singh Grewal (Langley, Canada), Jim George Nangany (Ottawa) and Scott William Hill Bailey (New Westminster, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Sync message to start off a 1-step synchronization sequence includes a timestamp (T1') that represents a time when the Sync message entered the packet processing pipeline of a network device to be processed for egress to a slave device. The...