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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2021
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Christian Arendt, Munich, DE;
Omid Pahlevan Sharif, Bad Homburg, DE;
Markus Wudy, Oberschleissheim, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method transmits a data element between control units of a vehicle that are coupled via at least two communication channels. The first control unit determines a communication channel indicator of a first channel that is representative of available transmission resources. The first control unit receives a data element from a data source. The priority of the data element is ascertained depending on an associated vehicle application. If the communication channel indicator indicates that the available transmission resources of the first channel are insufficient for transmission of the data element and the priority of the data element is less than a predefined priority threshold value, then storing the data element in a temporary memory of the first control unit for a predefined time interval. In a different case, the data element is transmitted from the first control unit to the second control unit via assigned communication channel(s).