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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for performing network-based triggering in an instrument system. SOLUTION: The technique for performing network-based triggering in the instrument system which enables an instrument to effectively transmit an event not with a hardwired trigger line but with a signal is disclosed. An instrument system 100 includes a first and second instruments connected to a local area network. The first instrument can perform an operation in response to the event transmitted by the second instrument with the signal. The second instrument transmits the event to the first instrument by transferring a trigger message 60 through the local are network. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To economize wiring costs and installation costs by routing power to a remote node through the unused line of a network communication link used for communication with the remote node. SOLUTION: A network communication link 30 is also used for communication to a remote node 20. A distributed processing system 100 includes a communication device 12, and the device 12 enables communication to the node 20 through the link 30 and also has a function distributing power to the node 20. The link 30 conforms to a specific standard including one set of transmission lines 40, one set of receiving data lines 42 and one set of unused lines 44. Communication between the device 12 and the node 20 is performed by using the lines 40 and 42. The device 12 performs routing of power to the node 20 By using the lines 44 according to the specific standard.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of correcting inaccurate time synchronization caused by asymmetric delay on a communication link. SOLUTION: Techniques for correcting inaccurate time synchronization caused by asymmetric delays on the communication link 110 are disclosed. Time synchronization according to the present techniques includes determining an asymmetry in a propagation delay on the communication link 110 used by a first device 100 and a second device 102 to exchange timing information and incorporating the asymmetry into a determination of a clock offset between the first device 100 and the second devices 102. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce energy consumption by transmitting measurement data from a sensor device to an application server. SOLUTION: Distributed systems from which measurement data are extracted using mobile devices (203) are provided. Access attempts by the mobile devices are recorded, and the probabilities of future access by a mobile device to sensor devices are calculated using the recorded information. Collection points are selected in response to probabilities of future access. Additionally, memory management and data prioritization may be performed at least partially on the basis of the probabilities of future access. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for extending clock resolution to be restricted by an oscillator period included in the clock. SOLUTION: A delay line 16 generates a group of (n-1) tap signals 30 to 34 by continuously delaying a trigger signal 18. Plural, i.e., (n-1), correction latches 20 to 24 respectively catch a value 140 in response to respective tap signals 30 to 34, A correction value applied to a latch time value 19 is determined in response to capture values 40 to 44. The applied correction value is made different in accordance with the patterns of capture values 40 to 44.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely adjust control functions by equipping respective nodes with clocks which hold the real world time, synchronizing the clocks with the real world time according to a synchronization protocol, and synchronizing control functions of the decentralization type system according to the real word time of the clocks. SOLUTION: This decentralized type system 10 is equipped with one group of nodes 20 to 24, which communicate with one another via a communication link 12 and equipped with the real world clocks 30 to 34. The real world clocks 30 to 34 are real-time clocks which reflect a real world time base such as the agreement, which is already known as 'Greenwich Mean Time.' The nodes 20 to 24 synchronize the time values that the real world clocks 30 to 40 hold according to the synchronization protocol. The control functions of the decentralization type system 10 are synchronized, on the basis of the real world time base provided by the real world clocks 30 to 34 for the synchronization.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To distribute a standard time value to decentralized nodes through a communication link. SOLUTION: Each node which is decentralized through are communication link 12 in this system 10 includes a slave clock which synchronizes a slave time value by using a synchronizing protocol. This system 10 includes a trackable time generating mechanism which generates a trackable time value and a master node having a master clock which synchronizes a master time value with the trackable time and distributes a master time value to slave blocks through the communication link 12. Consequently, the local time of each decentralized node always accurately matches the single standard time.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for correcting inaccurate time synchronization caused by internal asymmetric delays in a device with a local clock. SOLUTION: A method for time synchronization that avoids inaccurate time synchronization caused by asymmetric delays in the device 300 is disclosed. Time synchronization according to the present teachings includes determining an asymmetry between an internal delay of an inbound timing packet in the device 300 and an internal delay of an outbound timing packet in the device 300 and correcting a time synchronization in response to the asymmetry. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network transfer arrangement capable of generating a transit time massage including a transfer arrangement transit time. SOLUTION: The network transfer arrangement includes a transfer means for transferring packets between first and second subnets, a first access means for viewing the packet and related massages, a first timing packet detector that detects a timing data packet arriving at the first access means to generate a first recognition signal, a second access means for viewing the packet and related massages, a second timing packet detector that detects the timing data packet transmitted from the second access means to generate a second recognition signal, a transfer arrangement time server for recording local arrival time and local transmission time of the timing data packet according to the first and second recognition signals, and a calculation means for calculating a transfer arrangement transit time on the basis of the local arrival time and local transmission time, to generate a transit time massage containing the transit time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distributed system capable of realizing performance monitoring across the plural nodes of a distributed application. SOLUTION: This distributed system is provided with a means for generating time stamp recording related with the set of nodes 20, 22, and 24 for communicating through a network, the group of node applications 50, 52, and 54 arranged so as to be distributed among the nodes 20, 22, and 24, and the group of significant events related with one or more node applications 50, 52, and 54. In this case, the time stamp recording offers a time reference synchronizing across the nodes 20, 22, and 24 related with the significant events.