Patent ID: 8543260
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for correlating, in time, selected events that are memorialized as data within messages transmitted across disparate communications busses, said method comprising: receiving, with a referencing unit, the messages that are transmitted across the disparate communications busses; referencing, with the referencing unit, the content of a first selected received message to a master clock within the referencing unit; referencing, with the referencing unit, the content of a second selected received message to the master clock within the referencing unit, the second selected received message related to the first selected message, the second selected received message occurring on a communications bus disparate from the communications bus upon which the first received message occurred; and providing, based on operation of the master clock, a common time reference for the content of both the first selected received message and the second selected received message.