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US 7,796,473 B2Granted
Clock diagnostics
AssigneeThe Sapling Company, Inc.
InventorIlan Shemesh
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Abstract
Disclosed is a clock for use in a master/slave clock system, including a system and method for semi-automatically performing diagnostic self-tests on the status and operability of a plurality of components of one or more secondary clocks. The invention addresses a multitude of diagnostic and problem detection issues, including “no fault found.”
Claims3
A clock comprising:
- a slave clock configured to be coupled to a master clock, and arranged to receive data from the master clock using a communication protocol;
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- means within the slave clock for determining and displaying at the slave clock by use of clock hands the communication protocol currently in use by the slave clock to receive the data from the master clock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.