Patent ID: 8548644

Claim:
A method of communication on an on-board network in particular for a motor vehicle, between a master station and a plurality of slave stations of the type of those compatible with the standard Local Interconnect Network protocol in which data frames are sent by each of said plurality of slave stations on a serial bus in response to a single request frame by said master station, said single request frame comprising identifiers for said plurality of slave stations, respectively, representative of the required content of said data frames, wherein all or part of each of the specific data frames is formed sequentially on said serial bus by each of said plurality of slave stations, wherein said method is performed by a microprocesssor, comprising the steps of: causing said single request frame from said master station is to be submitted only once on said serial bus and each of said plurality of slave stations insert their bytes of slave station data into said data frame in response to said single request frame from said master station; generating said data frame from said master station so that it does not contain any identification information for any of said plurality of slave stations wherein a checksum is placed into said data frame by at least one of said plurality of slave stations.