| CPC H04L 12/4035 (2013.01) [H04L 7/0008 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
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1. A method for networking a first time-sensitive field bus with a second time-sensitive field bus, the first time-sensitive field bus comprising a first subscriber device and having a first dedicated time domain, and the second time-sensitive field bus comprising a second subscriber device and having a second dedicated time domain, the first time domain and the second time domain being frequency-synchronized, the first and the second field buses being connected to each other via a gateway, the method comprising:
storing a first subscriber device identifier in a memory of the gateway, the first subscriber device identifier identifying a virtual copy of the assigned first subscriber device of the first field bus;
storing a second subscriber device identifier in the memory of the gateway, the second subscriber device identifier identifying a virtual copy of the second subscriber device of the second field bus;
determining, at a reference time via the gateway, a first cycle duration of the first time domain of the first field bus that contains a first time slot for a transmission of time-sensitive data and a second cycle duration of the second time domain of the second field bus that contains a second time slot for a transmission of time-sensitive data; and
determining, via the gateway, a time offset between the first time domain and the second time domain at the reference time.
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