Patent ID: 11964215
Assignee: MATTEL, INC.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for determining a configuration of a physical toy vehicle track, the method comprising:
at a portal piece that is electrically and mechanically connected to one or more track pieces such that mechanical connections align a track portion of the portal piece with the one or more track pieces and cause the track portion of the portal piece to form at least a portion of the physical toy vehicle track, monitoring data received at couplers associated with the portal piece for an enumeration request, the data being received from a track piece of the one or more track pieces;
responding to the enumeration request with an assignment of an enumeration address for the track piece, the enumeration address being assigned based on at least an orientation of the track piece and a location of the track piece within a track layout; and
storing the enumeration address to maintain updated information about the configuration of the track layout.