Patent ID: 9651984
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a device in a network, a timestamp from a time synchronization master of the device, wherein the timestamp is associated with a clock message received from the master; determining, by the device, an amount of transmission delay between the device and the master; generating, by the device, a new clock message for one or more slaves of the device; determining, by the device, an elapsed time between when the device received the clock message from the master and when the device generated the new clock message for the one or more slaves of the device; and sending, by the device, a new timestamp associated with the new clock message to the one or more slaves of the device, wherein the new timestamp includes the timestamp received from the master, the determined amount of transmission delay between the device and the master, and the elapsed time between when the device received the clock message from the master and when the device generated the new clock message.