Patent ID: 8094581
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for configuring communication relationships between communication units arranged in a packet-oriented communications network during initialization of the network, wherein the communications units are assigned to a remote and a central communication device, the remote and the central communication devices each having a switching device, and wherein each communication unit has a communications-network-specific address information, the method comprising: providing a freely selectable temporary initialization address that uniquely addresses the central communication device in the communications network; configuring the switching devices so that data packets having the initialization address are switched toward the central communication device; generating a data packet by the remote communication device or by a communication unit assigned to the remote communication device, wherein the data packet comprises the address information of the remote communication unit; transmitting the data packet to the central communication device via the communications network wherein the data packet is switched via the communications network with the help of the initialization address; identifying the address information included in the data packet by the central communication device; selecting a communication unit assigned to the central communication device by the central communication device; assigning the identified address information to the selected communication unit by the central communication device; generating a further data packet by the central communication device or the selected communication unit, wherein the further data packet comprises the address information of the selected communication unit; transmitting the further data packet to the remote communication device via the communications network by the central communication device or the selected communication unit wherein the further data packet is switched via the communications network to the remote communication device with the help of the inserted address information; and configuring the communication relationship between the communication unit assigned to the remote communication device and the selected communication unit via the communications network based on the address information included in the data packet and the further data packet.