Becker Gmbh

Smsc Europe Gmbh

Reiner Klos

Herbert Hetzel

Patrick Heck

Christian Thiel

A network interface for the secure transmission of data comprises a functionally encapsulated unit that encompasses the elements required to ensure a minimum functionality of the network interface, with access from the outside of said encapsulated unit being possible only via specific shared services. Reliable transmission between nodes of a communication network is ensured by encapsulating a network interface of at least one of the nodes, and by ensuring a minimal functionality of the network interface.

Intelligent network interface controller

A method for transmitting digital data over data lines between subscribers forming data sources and data sinks and being disposed in a network having a ring structure and connecting a plurality of subscribers to one another with network segments each being formed between two adjacent subscribers, includes transmitting the data in the network in a format specifying a clocked sequence of individual bit groups of equal length, each including at least one partial bit group forming a data channel to be assigned temporarily to two subscribers in the network for a data transmission. A temporary allocation of the data channels for a data transmission between two subscribers takes place segmentally in the network, for optimal utilization of the data transmission capacity of the network only those network segments that are located between the applicable data source and the associated data sink are occupied for the particular data transmission.

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Ettlingen-Oberweier, Germany

Reiner Klos