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Wireless allocation of network addresses

US11489809B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Martin Bürkert · Wendischenhof, DE
Helmut Lipp · Assamstadt, DE
Thomas Sauer · Rellingen, DE
Günter Haas · Aalen, DE
Markus Humm · Weißbach, DE
Marco Weckert · Künzelsau, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 25, 2018
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 21, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2213/0042
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A dynamically addressable master-slave system and a method for dynamically addressing slave units includes a master unit and a plurality of slave units, such that the slave units are interconnected with the master unit via a bus system. The respective network addresses of the slave units are assigned to the respective serial numbers of these slave units in a table in the master unit according to the position thereof in the system according to a determined order. Upon replacement of slave units, a list of serial numbers of the units to be replaced is transferred to the master unit in the sequence of the acquisition of the serial numbers, which master unit replaces these serial numbers in the table with the serial numbers of the replaced slave units transmitted to the master unit.

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