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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Oskar Dauner, Esslingen, DE;
Fridjof Goebel, Heilbronn, DE;
Jutta Schneider, Erlangen, DE;
Sandra Schneider, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/338 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/338 ;
Abstract
A vehicle communications system, in particular for a motor vehicle, is provided having a plurality of equipment units for transmitting, receiving, acquiring and/or processing data for executing applications. The equipment units are connected to a common data bus via associated hardware interfaces. The applications are assigned flexibly controllable functions, each function being respectively assigned a software interface for exchanging data with other software interfaces and/or hardware interfaces, and the functions being executed within any desired equipment unit.