Patents by Inventor Bernd Herold

Bernd Herold has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Bus control unit for assisted program flow monitoring in star topologies, associated program flow monitoring system and method for program flow monitoring
    Patent number: 6691258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bus control unit for supporting data flow monitoring in a star topology, wherein an address comparator a target address, which is present at a bus interface, with a monitoring address area and deactivates an associated data processing unit connected to a monitoring bus interface and mirror-images the data stream to the monitoring bus interface if the target address which is present does not match the monitoring address area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Herold, Franz Hutner