Patent ID: 7372004
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting a registration of a connection of a domestic appliance on a bus line configuration, a plurality of domestic appliances for transmitting data to be connected or respectively are connected to the bus line configuration, which comprises the steps of: connecting the domestic appliance to the bus line configuration through an appliance interface of the domestic appliance, and through the bus line configuration transmitting data into the and/or from the domestic appliance; displaying operating modes and/or operating data of the domestic appliance on at least one display device of the domestic appliance; during the registration of the connection of the domestic appliance to the bus line configuration, visualizing on the display device of the domestic appliance a course and/or state of the registration of the connection of the domestic appliance to the bus line configuration; using course and/or status messages of a bus coupler connected with the domestic appliance for visualizing the course and/or state of the registration; during the visualizing step, visualizing a domestic address management process on the display device, by which the domestic appliance is integrated into a virtual network containing the bus line configuration; allocating the domestic appliance, in the virtual network, an unambiguous domestic appliance address; visualizing a chaining or respectively link address management process on the display device, via which in the virtual network an unambiguous bus coupler address is allocated to the bus coupler connected with the domestic appliance, by which the bus coupler is clearly identifiable among the bus couplers connected with the domestic appliances; and visualizing through the display device, an execution of a notification procedure, through which an appliance class of the domestic appliance in the virtual network is made known, by which the domestic appliances present in the virtual network are determined, whether they want to or must communicate with the appliance.