US 12,278,710 B2
Method for operating a communication system, communication system, and computing system
Josef Newald, Stuttgart (DE); Lambros Dalakuras, Leonberg (DE); and Thomas Hogenmueller, Hemmingen (DE)
Assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,109.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 104 422.7 (DE), filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271970 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/40032 (2013.01) [H04L 12/40039 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40234 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a communications network that includes a computing system, at least one intermediate control unit, and at least one execution unit associated with each intermediate control unit, the at least one intermediate control unit being communicatively connected to the computing system using a first communication system, each of the at least one execution unit being communicatively connected to the associated intermediate control unit using an associated second communication system, which is a master-slave communication system, and used as a slave,
wherein a message configuration table for each second communication system is stored in the computing system, the message configuration table indicating a temporal sequence of data to be transmitted on the second communication system, the method comprising:
for a communication with an execution unit of the execution units, sending data from the computing system, via the associated intermediate control unit, to the execution unit using the associated second communication system according to the associated message configuration table for the associated second communication system,
wherein an operating mode configuration table for each of the at least one second communication system is stored in the associated intermediate control unit, the operating mode configuration table specifying wakeup authorizations for the second communication system and checking thereof.