Patent ID: 9515701
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06K,H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing information to be exchanged between a main element and a plurality of auxiliary elements, the method comprising: providing the main element with a master single wire protocol (SWP) interface; providing each auxiliary element with a slave SWP interface; coupling the slave SWP interfaces to the master SWP interface through a switchable SWP link, with the switchable SWP link having a separate input for each slave SWP interface, the coupling comprising coupling a multiplexer/demultiplexer switch between the master SWP interface and the slave SWP interfaces; and controlling the switchable SWP link for selectively activating only one slave SWP interface at a time for connection with the master SWP interface, the activating of a selected SWP interface comprising exchanging control data between the master SWP interface and the selected slave SWP interface, and the controlling comprising controlling the multiplexer/demultiplexer switch for switching the SWP link to the selected slave SWP interface.