COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR

• US 20100082772A1
• Filed: 09/23/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/565,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082772A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route

Abstract

A communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network to obtain the time information from the responsive server is provided. The responsive server is capable of responding to a request for time information issued by the communication device. The communication device includes a preliminary data transmitter configured to transmit preliminary data to the responsive server, prior to transmitting the request for time information, and a time information requester configured to transmit the request for the time information to the responsive server and receive the time information which is transmitted from the responsive server in response to the request.

Claims

1. A communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network, wherein the responsive server is capable of responding to a request for time information issued by the communication device, the communication device comprising:

a preliminary data transmitter configured to transmit preliminary data, to the responsive server, prior to transmitting the request for time information; and

a time information requester configured to transmit the request for the time information to the responsive server and receive the time information which is transmitted from the responsive server in response to the request.

2. The communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the preliminary data to be transmitted to the responsive server is a ping command.

3. The communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the preliminary data transmitter and the time information requester are activated at a predetermined interval.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a time adjuster configured to adjust the time information received by the time information requester, based on transmission time of the request transmitted from the time information requester and receipt time of the time information received by the time information requester.

5. The communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication device is capable of communicating with a plurality of responsive servers,

wherein the communication device further comprises:

a duration measurer that transmits first data to each of the responsive servers to measure and collect duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and each of the responsive servers responding to the first data;

a time information provider selector that compares the collected duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and each of the responsive servers, and selects one of the responsive servers, which recorded shortest duration for the round-trip communication, as the providing server to which the time information requester transmits the request.

6. The communication device according to claim 5,

wherein the preliminary data transmitter further transmits preliminary data to each of the responsive servers, before the duration measurer transmits the first data to each of the responsive servers.

7. A communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network, wherein the responsive server is capable of responding to data transmitted from the communication device, the communication device;

comprising;

a preliminary data transmitter configured to transmit preliminary data to the responsive server, prior to transmitting primary data; and

a duration measurer that transmits the primary data to the responsive server in order to measure and collect duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and the responsive server responding to the primary data.

8. The communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the preliminary data to be transmitted to the responsive server is a ping command.

9. The communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the communication device is capable of communicating with a plurality of responsive servers,

wherein the duration measurer transmits the primary data to each of the responsive servers to measure and collect duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and each of the responsive servers responding to the primary data;

wherein the communication device further comprises;

a selector configured to compare the collected duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and each of the responsive servers and selects one of the responsive servers, which recorded shortest duration for the round-trip communication, as a time information providing server; and

a time information requester configured to transmit a request for time information to the time information providing server and to receive the time information issued and transmitted from the time information providing server in response to the request.

10. The communication device according to claim 9,

wherein the preliminary data transmitter and the duration measurer are activated at a predetermined interval.

11. A computer usable medium to store computer readable instructions to manipulate a communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network, wherein the responsive server is capable of responding to a request for time information issued by the communication device, the instructions manipulating the communication device to:

transmit preliminary data to the responsive server, prior to transmitting the request for time information;

transmit the request for the time information to the responsive server; and

receive the time information which is transmitted from the responsive server in response to the request.

12. A computer readable medium to store computer readable instructions to manipulate a communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network, wherein the responsive server is capable of responding to data transmitted from the communication device, the instructions manipulating the communication device to:

transmit preliminary data to the responsive server, prior to transmitting the primary data;

transmit the primary data to the responsive server; and

transmit the primary data to the responsive server in order to measure and collect duration of round-trip communication between the communication device and the responsive server responding to the primary data.