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

Claim 8:
9. A system for communicating with two or more slaves, the system comprising:
an interface communicatively coupled to a master over a master-slave bus; and
two or more slaves communicatively coupled to the interface;
wherein the interface is configured to:
receive a command packet from the 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 interface being configured to receive the command packet comprises the interface 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 interface being configured to associate the slave address with the one of the two or more slaves communicatively coupled to the interface comprises the interface being configured to:
parse the slave address from the command packet; and
compare the parse 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.