US 12,289,170 B2
Network device, communication system and method for the network device
Hubertus Gerardus Hendrikus Vermeulen, Eindhoven (NL); and Lu Lu Chan, Veldhoven (NL)
Assigned to NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,786.
Claims priority of application No. 22200735 (EP), filed on Oct. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0121036 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 1/1867 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/189 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network device comprising:
a first input interface,
a first output interface, and
a second output interface,
wherein the network device is configured to transition between a first state, in which the network device is configured to provide temporal communication redundancy, and a second state, in which the network device is configured to provide spatial communication redundancy,
wherein the network device is configured to generate each of a first output message and a second output message based on a first input message,
wherein the first output message represents the same content as the second output message,
wherein, in the first state, the network device is configured to transmit, both the first output message and the second output message via a selected one of the first output interface or the second output interface, with transmission of the first output message in the first state being offset in time with respect to transmission of the second output message in the first state, and
wherein, in the second state, the network device is configured to transmit the first output message via the first output interface and to transmit the second output message via the second output interface.