Method for reporting the time distribution of a succession of events
US6745141B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 3, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jun 1, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 10, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L43/18
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
To report the time distribution of a succession of specified events such as occurrences of particular data elements in telecommunications equipment, the method comprises an initialization of a sampling quantity consisting of a positive integer and several successive iterations of a scheme comprising the following steps: detection of a number of events equal to the sampling quantity and metering of a sampling time taken to detect said number of events; quantization of the sampling time metered in the previous step so as to output coding data representing a quantized value of the metered sampling time; and updating of the sampling quantity as a function of parameters including the quantized value of this sampling time.
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