Patent ID: 7836224

Claim:
A method for transmitting data of a data type to be transmitted cyclically and data of a data type which can be transmitted acyclically via a common transmission channel from a first participant unit connected to the transmission channel to at least one further participant unit connected to the transmission channel, the method comprising: executing a protocol-specific cyclic data transmission for transmitting at least one protocol-specific cyclic transmission sequence of transmission messages with data of the data type to be transmitted cyclically; for each protocol-specific cyclic transmission sequence of transmission messages, at least one particular position within the protocol-specific cyclic transmission sequence, checking the data of the data type to be transmitted cyclically, transmitted with the transmission message transmitted immediately before, for redundancy and currency with respect to the data of the data type to be transmitted cyclically which are provided for the immediately impending transmission message; and when such an impending transmission message is detected, for which redundant data of the data type to be transmitted cyclically are provided without new information content, inserting, instead of these data, data of a data type which can be transmitted acyclically, into a data area provided for the data of the data type to be transmitted cyclically.