Real-Time Data Transmission Gateway for Cross-Network Protocol Mapping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Real-time data transmission between networks with different real-time mechanisms is challenging due to incompatible protocols and standards, preventing seamless data transfer between networks.

Innovation Solution

An imaging module translates and maps the real-time mechanisms between networks, ensuring cross-network real-time data transmission by converting data packets and settings, allowing prioritization and synchronization to be maintained across networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If different real-time mechanisms are used in each network to ensure real-time data transmission within the respective network, then real-time transmission is guaranteed within each network, but real-time data transmission between the two networks cannot be achieved due to protocol incompatibility

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time transmission guaranteeVSAvoidcross-network compatibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a gateway device as an intermediary between the first network with the first real-time mechanism and the second network with the second real-time mechanism. The gateway translates data packets from the first real-time mechanism protocol to the second real-time mechanism protocol, enabling real-time data transmission between networks with different protocols while maintaining the real-time guarantees of each individual network

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The gateway device changes the protocol parameters of data packets when transmitting between networks. It converts packet structures, timing parameters, and protocol-specific attributes from the first real-time mechanism format to the second real-time mechanism format, allowing compatible transmission across different network standards while preserving real-time characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If network-specific real-time mechanisms are implemented to enable real-time data transmission within each network, then real-time communication is achieved locally, but the mechanisms cannot be used for real-time data transmission between the two networks

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time communication efficiencyVSAvoidprotocol translation requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gateway serves as a specialized intermediary device that handles protocol translation between different real-time mechanisms. By concentrating the translation function in a dedicated gateway, the complexity is isolated to a single component rather than distributed across all network devices, maintaining high communication efficiency while enabling cross-network real-time transmission

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If data packets are transmitted according to the real-time mechanism of the source network, then real-time conditions are met in the source network, but the real-time conditions cannot be guaranteed in the target network with a different real-time mechanism

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time condition guaranteeVSAvoidreal-time mechanism mapping
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gateway performs parameter changes on data packets during transmission, converting timing parameters, priority levels, and protocol attributes from the source network's real-time mechanism to match the target network's real-time mechanism. This ensures that real-time conditions guaranteed in the source network are appropriately translated and maintained in the target network despite protocol differences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3609145B1Method and device and system for real time capable data transmission between two networks
Publication Date: 2022.10.12 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for real-time data transmission between two networks (110, 120), wherein a first real-time communication system (111) with a first real-time mechanism for real-time data transmission is set up in a first network (110), wherein a second real-time communication system (121) with a second real-time mechanism for real-time data transmission is set up in a second network (120), wherein the first network (110) and the second network (120) are connected to each other via a mapping module (101) which maps the first real-time mechanism of the first real-time communication system (111) and the second real-time mechanism of the second real-time communication system (121) to each other.wherein, for real-time data transmission from one of the two networks to the other of the two networks, a data packet is sent in one of the two networks (110) according to the real-time mechanism of the real-time communication system (111) established in that network (110), the mapping module (101) maps this real-time mechanism to the real-time mechanism of the real-time communication system (121) established in the other of the two networks (120), and the data packet is transmitted to the other of the two networks (120) according to the real-time mechanism of the real-time communication system (121) established in that network.