Patent ID: 11888585
Assignee: BECKHOFF AUTOMATION GMBH
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a network subscriber in an automation communication network,
wherein the network subscriber is provided for exchanging data with further network subscribers in the automation communication network at a predetermined clock frequency,
wherein the network subscriber comprises an internal clock for synchronizing the data exchange with at least one further network subscriber, wherein the internal clock is configured to provide a time as an integer count value, and
wherein the clock frequency is predetermined in such a way that a period duration per clock pulse cannot be represented as the integer count value by the internal clock;
wherein the method comprises the following:
incrementing the internal clock with a predetermined sequence of integer increments,
wherein the sequence of integer increments is determined in such a way that a sum of the integer increments corresponds to an integer multiple of the period duration.