Patent ID: 11956188
Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a controller included in an in-vehicle communication network, a message provided by a network node included in the in-vehicle communication network;
identifying, by the controller, information indicating a secure zone (SZ) related to the message,
wherein the SZ is defined by a set of secure channels (SCs) between a plurality of network nodes, including the network node, associated with the in-vehicle communication network;

identifying, by the controller, one or more characteristics of the message, the one or more characteristics indicating at least one of:
a message type of the message, or
a security property of the message;

determining, by the controller, a priority of the message based at least in part on the information and the one or more characteristics; and
providing, by the controller, the message to an output buffer based at least in part on the priority of the message, the output buffer being one of a plurality of output buffers.