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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
May. 06, 2019
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Thomas Fischer, Erlangen, DE;
Stephan Höme, Schwabach, DE;
Konstantin Jung, Feucht, DE;
Sven Kerschbaum, Fürth, DE;
Marcel Kießling, Bayern, DE;
Frank Volkmann, Nuremberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for configuring an industrial real-time-capable communications network for the cyclical transmitting of messages (NWM), each comprising one or more data sets (DS, . . . , DS). The communications network () comprises a message source () for generating and cyclically sending the messages (NWM), at least one message sink () for receiving and processing the messages (NWM), as well as at least one network component () which forwards messages (NWM) from the message source to the message sinks. The configuring comprises determining (S) a network topology of the communications network () for the transmitting of a data stream to be sent from the message source () in the future, in which the messages (NWM) are each cyclically sent with all data sets. It is determined (S) which of the data sets in the data stream a respective one of the message sinks wants to receive. In addition, a respective filter (F,F) is determined (S) and designed (S) for each network component, whereby, from the network topology, the components connected to the respective network components and the data sets required for the connected message sinks are determined. In this way, during operation of the communications network (), exclusively required data sets are transmitted in the messages (NWM) in a downstream direction of the data stream.