Patent ID: 7774777

Claim:
A method for partially initializing a real-time computation device, the method comprising: transferring the real-time computation device into a meta-state, by performing the following: maintaining a fixed communication pattern; halting all time interval patterns to be initialized that are slower than the fixed communication pattern; successively initializing all of the time interval patterns to be initialized, in a sequence from a slowest one to a fastest one; and switching, after initializing all of the time interval patterns to be initialized, the fixed communication pattern into an initialized state without impairing communication to further computation devices; wherein: the real-time computation device is connected via a communication system to the further computation devices, various functionalities being implemented in the real-time computation device by executing the computer program in different fixed time interval patterns and the communication to the further computation devices being performed in the fixed communication pattern, the time interval patterns that are slower than the fixed communication pattern being started and terminated by the computer program via the fixed communication pattern; and the time interval patterns to be initialized are initialized aperiodically during the meta-state.