Patent ID: 7580494

Claim:
A communication system for providing communications between a first location and a second location, the communication system comprising: a transmitter module at the first location associated with a first clock, the transmitter module comprising a phase detector module operable to generate a one or more data bits to indicate phase offset-between the first clock and a second clock, the first clock to be to be associated with a transmission rate and the second clock to be associated with a network link rate; wherein the transmitter module further comprises: a timing generation circuit comprising: a divider circuit; a quantizer circuit coupled to the phase detector module; and a modulus control circuit coupled to the quantizer circuit; a receiver module at the second location associated with the second clock, the receiver module to be coupled to the transmitter module via a network; wherein the transmitter module is operable to transmit to the receiver module at least one of a data stream and the one or more data bits to indicate phase offset via the network; and wherein the receiver module is operable to determine the transmission rate associated with the first clock at the first location based on the one or more data bits to indicate phase offset and the network link rate.