Patents by Inventor Nicholas Faithorn

Nicholas Faithorn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7411970
    Abstract: A method of recovering a clock signal for a TDM output from packets of TDM data which have been transmitted over a packet network, from a source having a source TDM clock to a destination having a destination TDM clock. The method includes providing at least some packets with a Remote Time stamp representing the state of the source TDM clock when the packet is created; providing said at least some packets with a Local Timestamp representing the state of the destination TDM clock when the packet is received; determining a Transit Time value representing the difference between said Local and Remote Timestamps; and controlling the clock frequency of the TDM output on the basis of said Transit Time as determined above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Zarlink Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Martin Raymond Scott, Nicholas Faithorn, Timothy Michael Edmund Frost
  • Publication number: 20050100054
    Abstract: A method of recovering a clock signal for a TDM output from packets of TDM data which have been transmitted over a packet network, from a source having a source TDM clock to a destination having a destination TDM clock. The method includes providing at least some packets with a Remote Timestamp representing the state of the source TDM clock when the packet is created; providing said at least some packets with a Local Timestamp representing the state of the destination TDM clock when the packet is received; determining a Transit Time value representing the difference between said Local and Remote Timestamps; and controlling the clock frequency of the TDM output on the basis of said Transit Time as determined above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Scott, Nicholas Faithorn, Timothy Michael Frost
  • Publication number: 20050100006
    Abstract: A method of recovering a clock signal for a TDM output from packets of TDM data which have been transmitted over a packet network. The method includes providing a packet buffer to store incoming packets after transmission over the packet network, maintaining a packet count which is incremented as packets arrive at the packet buffer, and decremented each time a packet leaves the packet buffer, and sampling the packet count and controlling the clock frequency of the TDM output on the basis of the sampled packet count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Scott, Nicholas Faithorn, Timothy Frost