Patent ID: 11956206
Assignee: MICRO MOTION, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of communicating with two or more slaves, the method comprising:
receiving a command packet with an interface, wherein the command packet is sent by a master over a master-slave bus; and
associating a slave address of the command packet with one of two or more slaves communicatively coupled to the interface;
wherein:
receiving the command packet with the interface comprises:
receiving the command packet with a port communicatively coupled to the master-slave bus; and
determining, with a processor, if the slave address corresponds to at least one of the two or more slaves; and

associating the slave address with the one of the two or more slaves communicatively coupled to the interface comprises:
parsing the slave address from the command packet; and
comparing the parsed slave address with two or more address groups, wherein each of the two or of more address groups is associated with each of the two or more slaves.