Device for access to at least one component of a networked system from outside or from at least one component of such a system outward

• US 20050018698A1
• Filed: 06/03/2004
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Boer, Gerrit de, Pelz, Rodolfo Mann
• Application Number:
  US10/859,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20050018698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

A device for access to at least one component of a networked system from outside or from at least one component of such a system outward, a network made up of a plurality of sub-networks being provided, the access from outside taking place via service gateways and a service gateway representing a first hierarchical level and the service gateways allocated to the sub-networks representing a second hierarchical level, the operators of the gateways of the second hierarchical level being positioned in the gateway of the first hierarchical level.

Claims

1. A device for accessing at least one component of a networked system from outside or from at least one component of a networked system outward, the device comprising:

an outward network interface; and

a network including sub-networks, each of the sub-networks including at least one component, at least one of the sub-networks including at least one second service gateway controlled by at least one gateway operator, the network further including at least one first service gateway through which the network is connected to the interface, the first service gateway forming a first hierarchical level, the at least one second service gateway of the at least one sub-network being allocated to the first service gateway of the first hierarchical level, the at least one second service gateway representing a second hierarchical level, the at least one gateway operator of the at least one second service gateway being allocated to the second hierarchical level in the first service gateway of the first hierarchical level.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the network is in a motor vehicle.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the service gateways at least one of administer and control networked electronic components from various domains.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the service gateways are components of application gateways that are used for coupling various local networks or bus systems.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein in the first service gateway, at least parts of application software are relocated from electronic components connected in a particular sub-network.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first service gateway is used for a configuration of gateway operators under it.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first service gateway of the first hierarchical level is in the Internet.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first service gateway of the first hierarchical level is in a service center.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first service gateway of the first hierarchical level is in a vehicle.