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Switch module

  • US 9,276,801 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2013
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A switching module comprising:

  • an intra-vehicular network fabric interface for interface to an intra-vehicular network fabric contained within a vehicle;

    a switching circuit communicatively coupled to a plurality of local intra-vehicular network ports;

    memory configured to store intra-vehicular network information, the intra-vehicular network information including packet content type information and intra-vehicular network topology information;

    a first bypass module configured to receive and transmit packets via the intra-vehicular network fabric interface;

    a second bypass module configured to receive and transmit packets via one of the plurality of intra-vehicular network ports;

    a processing module coupled to the memory, the intra-vehicular network fabric interface and the switching circuit, the processing module to;

    determine a priority of a received packet based, at least in part, on the packet content type information;

    determine a selected switching protocol based, at least in part, on the intra-vehicular network topology information; and

    process the received packet based on the priority of the received packet and the selected switching protocol, including;

    identifying top-priority packets based on packet content; and

    controlling delivery of top-priority packets between the first bypass module and the second bypass module.

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