MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311081251 A) filed by Ciena Corporation, Hanover, U.S.A., on Nov. 30, 2023, for 'system and method for selecting ptp sources in a network with iwf assisted boundary clocks.'

Inventor(s) include Garg, Vineet Kumar; Singh, Krishan; Srivastava, Sharad Kumar; and Joshi, Vikas.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving an indication of a priority level of an interworking function used by a boundary clock node; and selecting a best master clock using an algorithm that considers the priority level of the boundary clock node. Other embodiments are disclosed."

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