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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 31, 2002
Ian M. Simmons, Hassocks, GB;
David J. Woolgar, Horsham, GB;
Norbert N. Eigeldinger, Villingen, DE;
Rainer G. Zwing, Vs-Villingen, DE;
Paul D. Wolf, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ian M. Simmons, Hassocks, GB;
David J. Woolgar, Horsham, GB;
Norbert N. Eigeldinger, Villingen, DE;
Rainer G. Zwing, Vs-Villingen, DE;
Paul D. Wolf, San Carlos, CA (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method is disclosed to determine the topology of a network comprising a master node and one or more slave nodes interconnected using unidirectional data connections. The master node makes available data to succeeding nodes, and a slave node reads data from a preceding node, the read data comprising information of a path from master node to the slave node. A further method is disclosed to configure the path by sending data from the slave node to all nodes on the path via bi-directional data connections between nodes.