Method for addressing network components

• US 6,832,283 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2001
• Issued: 12/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Daimler Chrysler Company LLC (Stellantis NV)
• Inventors: Krumrein, Rainer, Schneider, Jutta, Boesinger, Marcus
• Primary Examiner(s): AUVE, GLENN ALLEN
• Application Number:
  US09/881,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20020046309A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,278 Days
• Field of Search: 710/8, 710/9, 710/104, 710/305, 710/306, 710/313, 710/315, 370/313, 370/352, 455/656.1, 455/575.9, 701/29, 701/32, 701/36
• US Class Current: 710/315
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/403 with centralised control, e.g. polling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/10 of different types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Method for addressing components of a first network, especially in the case of data bus systems in transport vehicles, in which each component is assigned a first address for the mutual communication within the network and the first addresses are stored in a central register, in which at least one particular component of the first network communicates with another network, this component, when dialling into the second network, is assigned a second address by the latter and, within the first network, addressing takes place on the basis of function-specific address components, identical function blocks of the components being addressed via identical function-specific address components.

Claims

1. Method for addressing components of a first network in a data bus system in a transport vehicle, in which each component is assigned a first address for mutual communication within the network and the first addresses are stored in a central register, wherein at least one particular component of the first network communicates with a second network, said one component, when dialling into the second network, is assigned a second address by the second network, and wherein, within the first network, addressing takes place on the basis of function-specific address components, identical function blocks of the components being addressed via identical function-specific address components.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein a component of the first network registers a communication with the second network with the at least one particular component which communicates with the second network, whereupon a component of the at least one particular component, with the internal address from the first network, enables communication with an external IP address and thereupon sets up communication with the second network.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the components evaluate the first addresses stored in the central register in order to check a configuration of the first network.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein, during system power-up, addresses and/or address components relating to a component are copied by the central register via the data bus and are compared with address information stored in a respective decentralized memory in each component.

5. Method according to claim 4, wherein in the case of a new configuration of the data bus system, the addresses copied by the central register via the data bus are stored in a memory of each component.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein data are transmitted via an optical data bus.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the optical data bus is one of a D2B or MOST data bus.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein, before an actual data transmission via the data bus during system power-up or after reception of a status signal, stored addresses or address components are matched in registers of the components of the first network and/or function groups of the first network in accordance with the stored addresses of the central register.

9. Method according to claim 1, wherein an IP address of a requesting component is obtained from the central register by using a special instruction in the system.

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein the second network is external to the vehicle, the first address assigned to each component specifies a physical location and/or a functional association of each component, the first address is issued based on configuration of the data bus system, and the second address is based on an Internet address.

11. Method for addressing components of a first network, in a data bus system in a transport vehicle, in which each component is assigned a first address for mutual communication within the network and the first addresses are stored in a central register, wherein external IP addresses are issued to components which are authorized on the basis of an entry in a configuration list in a centralized component, and wherein proof about the authorization is made via a main function block transmitted with a request.

12. Method according to claim 11, wherein the main function block is also transmitted from an interrogating component to the centralized component during the interrogation, and the IP address is formed from the main function block and other address components of the interrogating component.

13. Method according to claim 11, wherein a component of the first network registers a communication with a second network with a component which is visible from outside the first network, whereupon the a component of the component which is visible, with the internal address from the first network, enables communication with an external IP address and thereupon sets up communication with the second network.

14. Method according to claim 11, wherein the components evaluate the first addresses stored in the central register in order to check a configuration of the first network.

15. Method according to claim 11, wherein, during system power-up, the addresses and/or address components relating to a component are copied by the central register via the data bus and are compared with address information stored in a respective decentralized memory in each component.

16. Method according to claim 15, wherein in the case of a new configuration of the data bus system, the addresses copied by the central register via the data bus are stored in a memory of each component.

17. Method according to claim 11, wherein data are transmitted via an optical data bus.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the optical data bus is one of a D2B or MOST data bus.

19. Method according to claim 11, wherein, before an actual data transmission via the data bus during system power-up or after reception of a status signal, the stored addresses or address components are matched in registers of the components of the first network and/or function groups of the first network in accordance with the stored addresses of the central register.

20. Method according to claim 11, wherein IP address of the requesting component are obtained from the central resister by using a special instruction in the system.

21. Method for addressing components of a first network in a databus system in a transport vehicle, the method comprising:

assigning, to each component, a logical address and a function specific address component;

assigning, to each component, a first address for mutual communication within the network, wherein the first address comprises the logical address and/or function specific address component;

storing the first addresses in a central register;

assigning, to at least one particular component of the first network which communicates with a second network, a second address by the second network when dialling into the second network; and

wherein addressing within the first network takes place on the basis of the function-specific address components, identical function blocks of the components being addressed via identical function-specific address components.

22. Method according to claim 21 comprising:

registering, by a component of the first network, a communication with the second network with the at least one particular component which communicates with the second network, whereupon a component of the at least one component enables communication with an external IP address and thereupon sets up communication with the second network.