Claims
- 1. A communication process between a plurality of communication participants, comprising:connecting said plurality of communication participants to a bus system, said communication participants being identified by respective participant addresses; managing a first group of references as a plurality of service access points using said plurality of communication participants; managing a second group of references for at least one of said service access points; and accessing a particular reference from said second group of references by way of an address corresponding to the participant address of the communication participant requesting access to said particular reference.
- 2. The communication process as recited in claim 1, wherein said plurality of communication participants are connected to said bus system for at least one of controlling and monitoring an automated process.
- 3. The communication process as recited in claim 1, wherein the management of said second group of references includes the use of a unique natural number that corresponds unambiguously to said particular reference.
- 4. The communication process as recited in claim 3, wherein the participant address of the communication participant requesting access corresponds unambiguously to the unique natural number corresponding to said particular reference.
- 5. The communication process as recited in claim 3, further comprising:converting the participant address of the communication participant requesting access into the unique natural number corresponding to said particular reference.
- 6. The communication process as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of communication participants manages a single, respective one of said first group of references as one of said service access points, respectively.
- 7. The communication process as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said service access points has a single respective second group of said managed references.
- 8. A communication system comprising:a plurality of communication participants; a bus system connecting said plurality of communication participants, wherein said plurality of communication participants can communicate with each other via said bus system; respective first groups of references that are managed as a plurality of service access points by said plurality of communication participants; and a second group of references that is managed for at least one of said service access points, wherein access to a particular reference from said second group of references by one of said plurality of communication participants is achieved using an address of said one communication participant requesting access to said particular reference.
- 9. The communication system as recited in claim 8, wherein each of said service access points has a respective second group of managed references.
- 10. The communication system as recited in claim 8, wherein the management of said second group of references includes the use of a unique natural number corresponding unambiguously to said particular reference.
- 11. The communication system as recited in claim 10, wherein said participant address of said one communication participant requesting access corresponds unambiguously to the unique natural number corresponding to said particular reference.
- 12. The communication system as recited in claim 10, further comprising an algorithm that correlates said participant address of said one communication participant requesting access to the unique natural number corresponding to said particular reference.
- 13. A method for communicating between communication participants over a bus system, comprising:uniquely identifying each of the communication participants with a respective participant address; providing each of the communication participants with a first group of references as respective service access points; providing a second group of references for at least one reference of the first group of references; and within the second group of references, routing a communication from one of the communication participants in accordance with the participant address of the one communication participant.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a Continuation of International Application PCT/EP99/05296, with an international filing date of Jul. 23, 1999, which was published under PCT Article 21(2) in German, and the disclosure of which is incorporated into this application by reference.
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