System and method for time synchronization between information handling systems
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsIsaac Q. Wang, Timothy M. Lambert
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Abstract
An information handling system includes a synchronizer and a module identifier. The module identifier identifies a module identification event for a module attached to the information handling system; in response to identifying the module identification event: obtains a module identifier from the module, and makes a determination that the module identifier indicates that the module is a synchronization type of module, and initiates, based on the determination, time synchronization for the information handling system with a second information handling system using the module and the synchronizer.
Claims20
An information handling system, comprising:
- a synchronizer;
- and
- a module identifier programmed to:
- identify a module identification event for a module attached to the information handling system;
- in response to identifying the module identification event:
- obtain a module identifier from the module, and
- make a determination that the module identifier indicates that the module is a synchronization type of module, and
- initiate, based on the determination, time synchronization for the information handling system with a second information handling system using the module and the synchronizer,
- wherein initiating time synchronization comprises:
- obtaining, using a wire set of a universal serial bus (USB) port and the synchronizer, a synchronization signal from the second information handling system, wherein the wire set is operably connected to a second synchronizer of the second information handling system.
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A method for managing an information handling system, comprising:
- identifying a module identification event for a module attached to the information handling system;
- and
- in response to identifying the module identification event:
- obtaining a module identifier from the module,
- making a determination that the module identifier indicates that the module is a synchronization type of module, and
- initiating, based on the determination, time synchronization for the information handling system with a second information handling system using the module and a synchronizer of the information handling system,
- wherein initiating time synchronization comprises:
- obtaining, using a wire set of a universal serial bus (USB) port and the synchronizer, a synchronization signal from the second information handling system, wherein the wire set is operably connected to a second synchronizer of the second information handling system.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing an information handling system, the method comprising:
- identifying a module identification event for a module attached to the information handling system;
- and
- in response to identifying the module identification event:
- obtaining a module identifier from the module,
- making a determination that the module identifier indicates that the module is a synchronization type of module, and
- initiating, based on the determination, time synchronization for the information handling system with a second information handling system using the module and a synchronizer of the information handling system,
- wherein initiating time synchronization comprises:
- obtaining, using a wire set of a universal serial bus (USB) port and the synchronizer, a synchronization signal from the second information handling system, the wire set is operably connected to a second synchronizer of the second information handling system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.