Method and apparatus for maintaining time in a computer system

Details Method and apparatus for maintaining time in a computer system Method and apparatus for maintaining time in a computer system

2008-08-06

2011-11-08

Cleary, Thomas J (Department: 2111)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Synchronization of clock or timing signals, data, or pulses

C713S375000, C713S500000, C713S502000

Reexamination Certificate

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ABSTRACT:
A computer system is arranged with a circular buffer that includes a piecewise linear map from a high-resolution counter arranged to maintain International Atomic Time. The piecewise linear map includes a current leg that is currently being used and also a future leg that will be used in the future. The future leg is computed while the current leg is still being used.

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