US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 19 for "Method and apparatus for selecting clock source" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,853, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for selecting clock source" was invented by Yawei Zhang (Beijing), Jingfei Lyu (Wuhan, China), Songyan Chen (Beijing) and Cong Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a clock source includes a first network device that obtains synchronization offset data between the first network device and a second network device through a first port in a clock synchronization failed state. The first network device determines, based on the synchronization offset data, whether to refer to, during clock sourc...