Patent ID: 9319054
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H03L,H04J

Claim Text:
1. A receiving device for network communications, comprising: a packet reception interface configured to receive network packets from a sending device; a time-stamp generator configured to generate receive time-stamps associated with received network packets using a receive time-stamp clock signal having a receive time-stamp clock rate; and a time-stamp clock generator configured to generate the receive time-stamp clock signal having the receive time-stamp clock rate, the receive time-stamp clock rate being configured to be intentionally different from a sender time-stamp clock rate for a sender time-stamp clock signal used to generate sender time-stamps such that the receive time-stamp clock rate is not syntonized with the sender time-stamp clock rate, and the receive time-stamp clock signal not being synchronized with the sender time-stamp clock signal and differing in phase from the sender time-stamp clock signal from clock-cycle to clock-cycle, such that systematic time-stamp granularity errors are not introduced; wherein the receive time-stamp clock rate and the sender time-stamp clock rate comprise a slave time-stamp clock rate and a master time-stamp clock rate; and wherein the ratio (f