Patent ID: 6421710
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A coupling arrangement for a master-slave bus system having a ring topology, comprising:a) a plurality of slave subscribers; b) a plurality of bypass elements with said plurality of bypass elements allocated, one each, to said plurality of slave subscribers; c) an address store disposed in each of said bypass elements, with said address store selectable only in the event of address interrogation and inactive during data interchange, with said bypass element capable of causing a brief interruption in data interchange and causing said bus master to interrogate addresses in said address store for restructuring when said slave subscriber is decoupled and coupled; and d) an interface with said interface connecting said slave subscriber and said address store, with said address store readable by said bus master via said slave subscriber when coupled, and with said bus master writeable into said address store located in said bypass element of said slave subscriber.