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

Claim 4:
5. An in-vehicle communication network controller, comprising:
one or more components configured to:
receive a message provided by a network node included in an in-vehicle communication network;
identify 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;

identify 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;

determine a priority of the message based at least in part on the information and the one or more characteristics; and
provide 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.