Patent ID: 6192036
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for operating a data transmission system including a plurality of stations interconnected using a common bus, wherein only one station of the plurality of stations has an access right to the bus at a predetermined time and controls a data transmission over the bus using a call message, the call message being addressed to at least two of the plurality of stations, the method comprising the steps of:determining a response time of each of the at least two of the plurality of stations; andconfiguring each of the at least two of the plurality of stations to perform in a consecutive order one of i) acknowledge to the call message and ii) respond to the call message, the consecutive order corresponding to the response time of each of the at least two of the plurality of stations, wherein a first station of the at least two of the plurality of stations accesses the bus first, the first station having a shortest response time, and a second station of the at least two of the plurality of stations accesses the bus last, the second station having a longest response time.