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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2011
Applicants:

Matthew Leonard Kaufer, Holly, MI (US);

Patrick L. Risse, Howell, MI (US);

Thomas A. Crites, Okemos, MI (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Leonard Kaufer, Holly, MI (US);

Patrick L. Risse, Howell, MI (US);

Thomas A. Crites, Okemos, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/04 (2006.01); H04L 12/403 (2006.01); H04L 12/865 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/403 (2013.01); H04L 47/6275 (2013.01); H04L 12/40143 (2013.01);
Abstract

A message generation module generates a message that is to be transmitted to a serial data bus of the vehicle once per first predetermined period. A queue manager module resets a timer value when the message is added to a transmit queue and selectively adds the message to the transmit queue when: a number of messages in the transmit queue is less than a first predetermined value; the timer value is greater than the first predetermined period; and one of (i) the first predetermined period is less than a second predetermined period and (ii) the first predetermined period is greater than the second predetermined period and the number of messages in the transmit queue is less than a second predetermined value. The second predetermined value is less than the first predetermined value. A communication control module selectively transmits messages from the transmit queue to the serial data bus.


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