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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Walton L. Fehr, Mundelein, IL (US);
Patrick D. Jordan, Austin, TX (US);
Desmond Hill, Warwickshire, GB;
Walton L. Fehr, Mundelein, IL (US);
Patrick D. Jordan, Austin, TX (US);
Desmond Hill, Warwickshire, GB;
Temic Automotive of North America, Inc., Deer Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for coordinating parameters in a switch fabric network () of a vehicle (). The network () has a plurality of nodes () that are interconnected by communication links for the transmission of data packets there between. Events in the vehicle () may be handled in connection with a vehicle parameter. One example of a vehicle parameter that may be used in the vehicle is the rotation of a crank shaft in the vehicle. An application uses that information to make a determination whether change a setting of a device in the vehicle (). If so, the application generates a command data packet and transmits the command data packet over the switch fabric network (). The command data packet transmitted by the application includes the new setting for the device along with a value of the vehicle parameter when the new setting should occur in the device. A node () associated with the device receives the data packet and acts on the information in the command data packet based on the value of the vehicle parameter within the data packet.