Patent ID: 11902723
Assignee: NUBIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A method comprising:
receiving a first local time information from a first network element;
receiving a second local time information from a second network element;
at a control system, computing, from the first local time information and the second local time information, one or more global time values;
transmitting the one or more global time values to the first network element or to a third network element different from the first and second network elements;
generating a first sequence of optical frame templates and a second sequence of optical frame templates;
sending the first sequence of optical frame templates to the first network element; and
sending the second sequence of optical frame templates to the second network element;
wherein the first sequence of optical frame templates comprises one or more time stamps, and the second sequence of optical frame templates comprises one or more time stamps;
wherein the first local time information comprises local time values that are local to the first network element and associated with a time stamp extracted by the first network element from the first sequence of optical frame templates;
wherein the second local time information comprises local time values that are local to the second network element and associated with a time stamp extracted by the second network element from the second sequence of optical frame templates.