US 11,985,028 B2
Method for configuring a network, in particular, in a motor vehicle
Karsten Schmidt, Ingolstadt (DE); Bernhard Stangl, Vienna (AT); Jose Antonio Munoz Cepillo, Barcelona (ES); and Francisco Cotrina, Barcelona (ES)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 17/799,465
Filed by Audi AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 10, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/053122
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/160630, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 103 546.2 (DE), filed on Feb. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0145955 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 43/10 (2022.01); H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 43/0817 (2022.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0816 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for configuring a network comprising at least a first switch and a second switch, the method comprising:
providing, based on a common syntax, a first piece of configuration information for the first switch and a second piece of configuration information for the second switch;
converting, by a respective processing module, the first piece of configuration information into a first piece of control information and the second piece of configuration information into a second piece of control information, wherein a syntax of the first piece of control information differs from a syntax of the second piece of control information; and
controlling the first switch based on the first piece of control information and controlling the second switch based on the second piece of control information,
wherein the respective processing module determines whether a respective target function described by at least one of the first piece of configuration information or the second piece of configuration information can be implemented by at least one of the first switch or the second switch alone, and
wherein if the respective processing module determines that the respective target function cannot be implemented by at least one of the first switch or the second switch alone, the method further comprises controlling at least one further device in the network to implement the target function jointly with at least one of the first switch or the second switch.