Control device or hybrid device

• US 8,600,307 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2012
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Peiker, Andreas, Richter, Lutz P., Schillo, Christoph, Mller, Gerald, Schulze, Marcus
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US13/364,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20120202566A1
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/66.1, 455/345, 710/100
• US Class Current: 455/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40006 Architecture of a communication node current supply arrangements H04L12/10; intermediate storage or scheduling H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40215 Controller Area Network CAN

Abstract

The invention relates to a control device, a hybrid device, a method for operating an arrangement (A) for processing data packets, an arrangement (A) for processing data packets and to an electronic device.

Claims

1. A control device, for connection to a vehicle bus comprising:

a layer model having a plurality of layers implemented in hardware of the control device,

a first interface via which the control device is connected to the vehicle bus, and

a second interface which is used to communicate with an electronic device,

wherein the second interface communicates directly with a data link layer of the layer model.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the layer model consists of three layers, a physical layer, the data link layer and a network layer, and the second interface of the control device is a serial interface for serial communication.

3. The control device according to claim 2, wherein the serial interface is a radio serial communications interface.

4. The control device according to claim 3, wherein the radio serial communications interface is a Bluetooth standard serial communication interface.

5. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device communicating with the control device comprises a serial interface for serial communication, and the electronic device is a mobile electronic device.

6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein the electronic device is a mobile electronic communication device.

7. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control device is one of a CAN bus control device, a FlexRay control device, and a byteflight control device.

8. A hybrid device, for connection to a vehicle bus comprising:

a control device and an electronic device, wherein

the control device and the electronic device have a bidirectional communication link,

the control device is connected to the vehicle bus,

lower layers of a layer model are implemented on first hardware of the control device said layers include a physical layer, a data link layer and a network layer,

the electronic device comprises second hardware,

a first application, which is matched to the electronic device and to the control device, is installed on freely programmable hardware of the electronic device, and implements upper layers of the layer model on the freely programmable hardware of the electronic device, and

a two-part control device is formed in the hybrid device as a result of the upper layers of the electronic device being connected to the lower layers of the control device using the communication link.

9. The hybrid device according to claim 8, wherein the electronic device is a mobile electronic device.

10. The hybrid device according to claim 8, wherein

the control device further comprises a first interface and a second interface,

the control device is connected to the vehicle bus via the first interface,

the electronic device comprises a third interface,

the bidirectional communication link exists between the control device and the electronic device as a result of the use of the second and third interfaces,

the second interface of the control device, is a data link layer having a direct bidirectional communication link to the data link layer on the first hardware of the control device,

an application layer, a presentation layer, a session layer and a transport layer are implemented by the first application on the hardware of the electronic device, and

the third interface of the electronic device is a data link layer having a direct bidirectional communication link to one of the layers implemented on the second hardware of the electronic device.

11. The hybrid device according to claim 10, wherein the second interface and the third interface are radio interfaces.

12. The control device according to claim 11, wherein the radio interfaces are Bluetooth radio interfaces.

13. The control device according to claim 8, wherein the control device is one of a CAN bus control device, a Flex Ray control device, and a byteflight control device.

14. A method for operating an arrangement for processing data packets, the arrangement comprising an electronic device, a control device, and a network formed by a vehicle bus and bus subscribers, wherein

a first data packet, which is addressed to the electronic device by one of the bus subscribers, is received by the control device, passing through a physical layer and a data link layer in the control device and then is transmitted to the electronic device via a bidirectional communication link and is unpacked further in the electronic device as it passes through a transport layer, a session layer, a presentation layer and an application layer, and

a second data packet, which is addressed to at least one of the bus subscribers by the electronic device, is transmitted from a transport layer of the electronic device, to a data link layer of the control device via a bidirectional communication link, is placed onto the vehicle bus by a physical layer with the inclusion of a network layer and is transported to at least one of the bus subscribers on the vehicle bus.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the electronic device is a mobile electronic device.

16. An arrangement for processing data packets, the arrangement comprising an electronic device, a control device, a vehicle bus which forms a network and bus subscribers, the bus subscribers and the electronic device having a communication link via the vehicle bus and the control device, the control device comprising a physical layer and a data'"'"'link layer for processing a first data packet transmitted by one of the bus subscribers, a bidirectional communication link existing between the control device and the electronic device, and the electronic device comprising a transport layer, a session layer, a presentation layer and an application layer for processing the first data packet wherein the control device further comprises a network layer for processing a second data packet which is transmitted by the electronic device, the network layer addressing the second data packet to one of the bus subscribers.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the electronic device is a mobile electronic device.

18. An electronic device, comprising freely programmable hardware and an application installed on the hardware, wherein the application implements a transport layer, a session layer, a presentation layer and an application layer of a layer model on the electronic device, wherein the application processes first data packets which are received by the serial interface, the processing operation being carried out without evaluating a network address, and the first data packets are converted into at least one of an image and an audio signal which is output on at least one of a display and a loudspeaker of the electronic device, and

generates second data packets which are transmitted from the control device to a serial interface of the electronic device.

19. The electronic device according to claim 18, wherein the second data packets are transmitted free of logical addressing referring to a bus subscriber.