Patent ID: 9065736
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04J,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for networking, the method comprising: performing by one or more circuits in a network device, one or more functions comprising: storing, in one or more registers within a physical layer device of said network device, determined parameters associated with a traversal time of data in a single direction between a first end of said physical layer device associated with a first interface of said physical layer device with a higher layer and a second end of said physical layer device associated with a second interface of said physical layer device physical media; and adjusting one or more timestamps generated in a layer above said physical layer device based on said stored determined parameters that are retrieved from said one or more registers within said physical layer device of said network device, said adjusting accounting for said traversal time of data in said single direction through said physical layer device due to operation of said physical layer device in an energy saving mode.