Patents by Inventor Franz Bailer

Franz Bailer 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).

  • Publication number: 20230283451
    Abstract: A subscriber station for a serial bus system and a method for communication. The subscriber station has a communication control device controlling a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system and generating a transmit signal. The communication control device generates the transmit signal according to a frame and to insert a field having a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for the transition from a first communication phase to a second communication phase. The field has a predetermined length between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge such that a sampling time at which a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system will sample the first bit of the second communication phase is situated between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer
  • Patent number: 11722335
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system, including a communication control device for controlling a communication of the user station with at least one other user station of the bus system, and a transceiver device for transmitting a transmission signal, generated by the communication control device, onto a bus of the bus system. The communication control device is designed to generate the transmission signal according to a frame, and to insert into the frame at least one field that is designed for checking whether the bit stream of the frame in a user station of the bus system that receives the frame is shifted by at least one bit compared to the expected frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer
  • Patent number: 11665019
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data over a bus system, having a storage device for at least temporary storage of messages transmittable over the bus system. The apparatus is designed to check at least one message, stored in the storage device, for at least one criterion and to alter at least one portion of the message based on the check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Ramona Jung, Thomas Enderle
  • Publication number: 20220398212
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system. The user station includes a communication control device for controlling a communication of the user station with at least one other user station, and a transceiver device to serially transmit a transmission signal, generated by the communication control device, onto a bus, and serially receive signals from the bus. The communication control device generates the transmission signal according to a frame and inserts into the frame two check sums that include different bits of the frame in the computation. The communication control device inserts dynamic stuff bits into the frame in such a way that an inverse stuff bit is inserted into the bit stream of the frame after 5 identical bits in succession. The communication control device computes the two check sums so that a maximum of one of the two check sums includes the dynamic stuff bits in the computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer
  • Publication number: 20220286320
    Abstract: A user station for a serial bus system, including a communication control device for controlling a communication of the user station with at least one other user station of the bus system, and a transceiver device for transmitting a transmission signal, generated by the communication control device, onto a bus of the bus system. The communication control device is designed to generate the transmission signal according to a frame, and to insert into the frame at least one field that is designed for checking whether the bit stream of the frame in a user station of the bus system that receives the frame is shifted by at least one bit compared to the expected frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer
  • Publication number: 20220150091
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data over a bus system, having a storage device for at least temporary storage of messages transmittable over the bus system. The apparatus is designed to check at least one message, stored in the storage device, for at least one criterion and to alter at least one portion of the message based on the check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Mutter, Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Ramona Jung, Thomas Enderle
  • Patent number: 10146725
    Abstract: A method is described for checking the correct functioning of a serial data transmission in a bus system having at least two bus users. The bus users are connected to the bus via a bus connection unit and exchange messages via the bus. The sending access to the bus for each message is granted to a bus user via the arbitration process according to CAN standard ISO 11898-1, this bus user becoming the sender for this message. The messages have a logic structure according to the CAN standard, i.e., are composed of a start of frame bit, arbitration field, control field, data field, CRC field, acknowledge field, and end of frame field. The correct functioning of the data transmission is checked during the transmission by comparing a transmission signal, sent to the bus connection unit, to the reception signal (CAN_RX) received by the bus connection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Christian Horst, Arthur Mutter
  • Patent number: 10083149
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for serially transmitting frames from a transmitter to at least one receiver via a bus line and to a participant station for a bus system. In the method, stuff bits are integrated into the frame by the transmitter dependent on the values of multiple previous bits in order to generate additional signals edges. The transmitter of the frame counts the stuff bits which are integrated depending on the value of multiple previous bits, and information on the number of counted stuff bits is transmitted in the transmitted frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Arthur Mutter, Jan Scheuing
  • Publication number: 20170262400
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for serially transmitting frames from a transmitter to at least one receiver via a bus line and to a participant station for a bus system. In the method, stuff bits are integrated into the frame by the transmitter dependent on the values of multiple previous bits in order to generate additional signals edges. The transmitter of the frame counts the stuff bits which are integrated depending on the value of multiple previous bits, and information on the number of counted stuff bits is transmitted in the transmitted frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Florian HARTWICH, Franz BAILER, Arthur MUTTER, Jan SCHEUING
  • Patent number: 9154324
    Abstract: A method and a filter system for filtering messages which are received, via a serial data bus of a communications network, in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus. To allow particularly simple and efficient filtering of incoming messages, even when there is a large number of filtering criteria, it is proposed that the filter system includes a list in which multiple identifier pairs are stored which define a range delimited in each case by a first identifier and a second identifier. The identifier for an incoming message is compared at least to selected identifier pairs from the list, and a query is made concerning whether the identifier for the incoming message is greater than, or greater than or equal to, the selected first identifier, and is less than, or less than or equal to, the selected second identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle, Christian Horst
  • Patent number: 8954516
    Abstract: A method and a filter system for storing information about messages coming in via a serial data bus of a communication network in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus, which are filtered using a filter system. In order to be able to implement a particularly simple and efficient storage of information about incoming messages even in the event of a great number of filter criteria, the invention provides for the filter system to include a list, which as list elements has one or multiple filter elements, which contain storage control information, and for a check to be performed on the basis of the storage control information as to whether information about an incoming message is to be stored, and information about an incoming message is stored if the check has determined that the information is to be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Christian Horst
  • Publication number: 20140337549
    Abstract: A method is described for checking the correct functioning of a serial data transmission in a bus system having at least two bus users. The bus users are connected to the bus via a bus connection unit and exchange messages via the bus. The sending access to the bus for each message is granted to a bus user via the arbitration process according to CAN standard ISO 11898-1, this bus user becoming the sender for this message. The messages have a logic structure according to the CAN standard, i.e., are composed of a start of frame bit, arbitration field, control field, data field, CRC field, acknowledge field, and end of frame field. The correct functioning of the data transmission is checked during the transmission by comparing a transmission signal, sent to the bus connection unit, to the reception signal (CAN_RX) received by the bus connection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Christian Horst, Arthur Mutter
  • Patent number: 8732374
    Abstract: A subscriber node of a communication system, a communication system and a method for transmitting a message in the communication system. The message is transmitted from a first subscriber node of the communication system via a data bus of the communication system to a second subscriber node of the communication system. An application program of the first subscriber node files the message, that is to be sent, in a message memory, from where it is retrieved by a communication controller, upon a sending command of the application program, and is transmitted via the data bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Marc Schreier, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst
  • Patent number: 8484390
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to data of a message memory, and a message handler of a communications module having a message memory, in which data are input or output in response to an access; the message memory being connected to a first buffer configuration and a second buffer configuration, and the data being accessed via the first or the second buffer configuration; in the message handler, at least one first finite state machine being provided which controls the access to the message memory via the first buffer configuration, and at least one second finite state machine being provided which controls the access via the second buffer configuration, the at least one first finite state machine and the second finite state machine making access requests; and a third finite state machine being provided which assigns access to the message memory to the at least one first and the second finite state machine as a function of their access requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Christian Horst, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle
  • Patent number: 8484383
    Abstract: FlexRay communication controller for connecting FlexRay communication lines to a FlexRay network member assigned to the FlexRay communication controller, whereby said FlexRay communication controller encloses some parts as there are at least a message handler, a message memory, a first buffer memory structure for connecting said message memory to said FlexRay network member and a second buffer memory structure for connecting said message memory to said FlexRay communication lines, whereby all the parts are functioning together to connect said FlexRay communication lines to said FlexRay network member and said FlexRay communication controller is constructed in such a way that said functioning is controlled by the contents of a variety of registers located onto said FlexRay communication controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Thomas Wagner, Christian Horst, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle
  • Patent number: 8095740
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for accessing data of a message memory of a communication module by inputting or outputting data into or from the message memory, the message memory being connected to a buffer memory assemblage and the data being transferred to the message memory or from the message memory, the buffer memory assemblage having an input buffer memory in the first transfer direction and an output buffer memory in the second transfer direction; and the input buffer memory and the output buffer memory each being divided into a partial buffer memory and a shadow memory, the following steps being performed in each transfer direction: inputting data into the respective partial buffer memory, and transposing access to the partial buffer memory and shadow memory, so that subsequent data can be inputted into the shadow memory while the previously inputted data are already being outputted from the partial buffer memory in the stipulated transfer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Christian Horst, Franz Bailer
  • Patent number: 8019961
    Abstract: In a method for storing messages in a communications module, the messages to be stored contain first data having a first data volume and second data having a second data volume, and it is possible for the second data volume to be different per message. A message memory contains a header segment, in which the first data of the message are stored in a respective header area per message, and the message memory also contains a data segment, in which the second data of the message are stored in a respective data area per message The message memory is configured such that a division between the header segment and the data segment is variable, depending on the number of messages and the second data volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Christian Horst, Franz Bailer
  • Publication number: 20110167188
    Abstract: A subscriber node of a communication system, a communication system and a method for transmitting a message in the communication system. The message is transmitted from a first subscriber node of the communication system via a data bus of the communication system to a second subscriber node of the communication system. An application program of the first subscriber node files the message, that is to be sent, in a message memory, from where it is retrieved by a communication controller, upon a sending command of the application program, and is transmitted via the data bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Marc Schreier, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle, Tobias Lorenz, Christian Horst
  • Publication number: 20110125855
    Abstract: A method and a filter system for filtering messages which are received, via a serial data bus of a communications network, in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus. To allow particularly simple and efficient filtering of incoming messages, even when there is a large number of filtering criteria, it is proposed that the filter system includes a list in which multiple identifier pairs are stored which define a range delimited in each case by a first identifier and a second identifier. The identifier for an incoming message is compared at least to selected identifier pairs from the list, and a query is made concerning whether the identifier for the incoming message is greater than, or greater than or equal to, the selected first identifier, and is less than, or less than or equal to, the selected second identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Markus Ihle, Christian Horst
  • Publication number: 20110113107
    Abstract: A method and a filter system for storing information about messages coming in via a serial data bus of a communication network in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus, which are filtered using a filter system. In order to be able to implement a particularly simple and efficient storage of information about incoming messages even in the event of a great number of filter criteria, the invention provides for the filter system to include a list, which as list elements has one or multiple filter elements, which contain storage control information, and for a check to be performed on the basis of the storage control information as to whether information about an incoming message is to be stored, and information about an incoming message is stored if the check has determined that the information is to be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Florian Hartwich, Franz Bailer, Christian Horst