Patent ID: 8799520

Claim:
A method for operating a bus system having a plurality of stations connected thereto, the method comprising: transmitting at least one message via the bus system from at least one station connected to the bus system, wherein each station connected to the bus system uses at least one identifier, the at least one identifier being for use exclusively by the station, wherein each message transmitted on the bus includes an identifier field in which one of the at least one identifiers exclusively used by the station is placed; receiving each message transmitted via the bus system at a first station connected to the bus system; reading at least the identifier field of each of the received messages at the first station; comparing the identifier in the identifier field of each of the received messages to the identifiers being for use exclusively by the first station; transmitting an error message from the first station in response to the identifier of any of the received messages matching one of the identifiers being for use exclusively by the first station; and determining from the identifier of a received message whether the received message is relevant to first station in response to the identifier in the received message not matching one of the identifiers being for use exclusively by the first station.