Patent ID: 6728618
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: B60T,B60W

Abstract:
A method for activating a first system for at least one of controlling and regulating an operational sequence in a motor vehicle that includes a plurality of equal-access control units for at least one of controlling and regulating a function in the motor vehicle, the control units each including a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory including a loading routine and being connected to one another by a time-controlled communications system, the method comprising:switching on the first system; causing one of the control units to temporarily become a master control unit; in a central memory of at least one of the control units, storing data for a time-controlled communication for all the control units; during an activating process of the first system, causing the one of the control units corresponding to the master control unit to coordinate a logging on of remaining ones of the control units to the time-controlled communications system; and ending a temporary master function of the master control unit one of upon an expiration of a predefinable time period and at a termination of the activating process.