Communication process and apparatus
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGuenter Steindl
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Abstract
Communication process for communication between communication participants (S1, S2, S3, S4) provided for control and/or monitoring of a technological process, which are connected in communication with each other by way of a bus system (B) and can be identified using their addresses, whereby each communication participant manages a first group of references as so-called service access points, wherein for at least one of the service access points a second group of references is managed, whereby the access to an individual reference from this second group of references is carried out using the address of the accessing communication participant.
Claims13
A communication process between a plurality of communication participants, comprising:
- connecting said plurality of communication participants into a bus system, said communication participants being identified by respective participant addresses;
- managing a first group of references as a plurality of service access points using said plurality of communication participants;
- managing a second group of references for at least one of said service access points;
- and
- accessing a particular reference from said second group of references by way of an address corresponding to the participant address of the communication participant requesting access to said particular reference.
A communication system comprising:
- a plurality of communication participants;
- a bus system connecting said plurality of communication participants, wherein said communication participants can communicate with each other via said bus system;
- respective first groups of references that are managed as a plurality of service access points by said plurality of communication participants;
- and
- a second group of references that is managed for at least one of said service access points, wherein access to a particular reference from said second group of references by one of said communication participants is achieved using an address of said one communication participant seeking access to said particular reference.
A method for communicating between communication participants over a bus system, comprising:
- uniquely identifying each of the communication participants with a respective participant address;
- providing each of the communication participants with a first group of references as respective service access points;
- providing a second group of references for at least one of the first group of references;
- and
- within the second group of references, routing a communication from one of the communication participants in accordance with the participant address of the one communication participant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.