MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311081663 A) filed by Ciena Corporation, Hanover, U.S.A., on Nov. 30, 2023, for 'system and method to discover candidate ptp clock source(s) over ip/mpls network.'
Inventor(s) include Srivastava, Sharad Kumar; Garg, Vineet Kumar; Singh, Krishan; and Chauhan, Vijendra Singh.
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 that includes a processing system including a processor; a clock; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: advertising a capability as a precision timing protocol (PTP) master clock through an Internet Protocol (IP) network, wherein the advertising includes an IP address of the device; receiving a unicast signaling mechanism from a PTP client node in the network; and sending clock messages to the PTP client node responsive to accepting the PTP client node. Other embodiments are disclosed."
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