Patent ID: 7350015

Claim:
A data transmission apparatus for forwarding data received from a first device; intended for a second device, to the second device, the data transmission apparatus comprising: a data transmission device for receiving and outputting the data, said data transmission device having connections for connecting to at least two data buses, including a first data bus and a second data bus, and a buffer storage, said data transmission device outputting the data received from the first data bus onto either the first data bus or the second data bus, immediately, unless the data transmission device is changeably preconfigured for the present respective data transfer, to output the data received from the first bus, later in time, and storing the data received from the first data bus in said buffer storage if the data is to be output later in time, the pre-configuration of said data transmission device being configured for each, respective data transfer using a configuration data record, said configuration data record stipulating whether the data received from the first data bus is to be buffer-stored.