Patent ID: 8588943

Claim:
A method for parameterizing operating means connected to a data transmission medium, comprising: storing in memory a respective device description for at least several of the connected operating means, each device description containing at least one function and a parameter set belonging thereto; storing in memory a list of several predefined device functions, wherein to each of said predefined device functions the respective parameter sets are assigned which correspond to the operating means that support the respective device function; selecting at least one device function from said list of several predefined device functions, thereby selecting several operating means that support the selected device function; and transmitting, in response to the selected device function, to each of the selected operating means the individual parameter set of the parameter sets assigned to the selected device function which corresponds to the respective selected operating means and parameterizing each of the selected operating means with the respective individual parameter set, wherein several different parameter sets are assigned to the selected device function where are respectively used for parameterizing different operating means.