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

Claim 4:
5. An interface for communicating with two or more slaves, the interface comprising:
a processor configured to communicatively couple to two or more slaves; and
a communication port communicatively coupled to the processor, the communication port being configured to communicatively couple to a master-slave bus;
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive a command packet from a master over the master-slave bus; and
associate a slave address of the command packet with one of the two or more slaves;
wherein the processor being configured to receive the command packet comprises the processor being configured to:
receive the command packet with a communication port communicatively coupled to the master-slave bus; and
determine if the slave address corresponds to at least one of the two or more slaves; and

wherein the processor being configured to associate the slave address with the one of the two or more slaves communicatively coupled to the interface comprises the processor being configured to:
parse the slave address from the command packet; and
compare 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.