US Patent Issued to Calix on Oct. 6 for "Precision time protocol clock synchronization in a high availability network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,646, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Calix Inc (San Jose, Calif.).

"Precision time protocol clock synchronization in a high availability network" was invented by Youbin Xiang (Nanjing, China), Xi Kang (Nanjing, China) and Weining Zhou (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for precision time protocol (PTP) clock synchronization. Embodiments include transmitting, by a time transmitter node to a time receiver node, a synchronization message via one or more intermediate nodes. The one or more intermediate nodes may record path information associated with routing the synchronization message. E...