US 2022/0045778 A1 · COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Abstract

A communication system (100) includes communication device (1) to communication device (9). Communication device (1) to communication device (9) select a first representative device that represents a same domain. Communication device (3) is selected from domain D (1), communication device (6) is selected from domain D (2), and communication device (9) is selected from domain D (3). For communication device (3), communication device (6), and communication device (9) selected from each domain, communication device (3) sets to communication device (3), communication device (6) sets to communication device (6), and communication device (9) sets to communication device (9), domain D (0) as a common domain to which communication device (3), communication device (6), and communication device (9) belong. Communication device (3), communication device (6), and communication device (9) select communication device (9) as a network grandmaster that is a second representative device that represents domain D (0).

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Dependent claims

A communication system comprising:

a plurality of communication devices, wherein
each communication device of the plurality of communication devices includes processing circuitry, wherein
the processing circuitry has a domain setting that indicates a domain among a plurality of domains to which the communication device belongs,
in a plurality of the communication devices that belong to the domain that is a same, the processing circuitry of each selects a first representative device that is a communication device that represents the domain that is the same, and
in a plurality of the first representative devices selected from each of the domains, the processing circuitry of each sets a common domain to which the plurality of the first representative devices belong, and selects a second representative device that represents the common domain from the plurality of the first representative devices.

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