A communication control device. The communication control device has a communication control module for generating a transmit signal for controlling communication of the subscriber station with other subscriber station(s) of the bus system which uses at least one first communication phase and one second communication phase for exchanging messages between subscriber stations of the bus system, and an interface module for encoding the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of a message into an encoded transmit signal, and for inserting additional data into at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal. The interface module is configured to insert the additional data into the encoded transmit signal as at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal serially with the information of the symbol of the transmit signal. The symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical.

In an anomaly determination method for determining an anomaly in a received message, a plurality of messages which include messages that are periodic and each of which includes a first field having a fixed value and a second field having a variable value are each received as the received message, and one of a plurality of combinations to be used for determination each of which includes at least one of a plurality of anomaly determinations including an anomaly determination utilizing a reception timing based on the periodicity or the number of received messages, an anomaly determination utilizing the first field, and an anomaly determination utilizing the second field, is selected according to one or more criteria among available execution time of the anomaly determination method, a load amount, a data amount, and the number of messages.

In an anomaly determination method for determining an anomaly in a received message, a plurality of messages which include messages that are periodic and each of which includes a first field having a fixed value and a second field having a variable value are each received as the received message, and one of a plurality of combinations to be used for determination each of which includes at least one of a plurality of anomaly determinations including an anomaly determination utilizing a reception timing based on the periodicity or the number of received messages, an anomaly determination utilizing the first field, and an anomaly determination utilizing the second field, is selected according to one or more criteria among available execution time of the anomaly determination method, a load amount, a data amount, and the number of messages.

A data network has at least three line branches connected via a common star node to distribute message signals from one of the line branches onto the other line branches, wherein connected to at least one of the line branches is at least one bus-user device is configured to generate in a corresponding transmit mode by a corresponding transmit unit at least one of the message signals, wherein in the corresponding bus-user device, the transmit unit has a current source circuit which, in generating the message signal (16), is configured to inject an electric current into electrical lines of the line branch to which the bus-user device is connected, and via the current source circuit the lines are connected to an internal impedance value of the current source circuit that in transmit mode is constantly greater than 10 times the value of the characteristic impedance, for example greater than 500 Ohms.

A transceiver device for a user station of a serial bus system, a communication control device, and a method. The transceiver device includes a first terminal for receiving a transmission signal from a communication control device, a transmission module for transmitting the transmission signal onto a bus of the bus system, a reception module for receiving the signal from the bus, the reception module being designed to generate a digital reception signal from the signal received from the bus, a second terminal for sending the digital reception signal to the communication control device and for receiving an operating mode changeover signal from the communication control device, and a changeover feedback block for outputting feedback regarding a changeover of the operating mode that has taken place as a result of the operating mode changeover signal.

A method of displaying a communication state, the method comprising: obtaining, from a storage device, specification information and history information, the specification information being information indicating a specification of a communication performed in response to an occurrence of an event, the history information being information indicating a history of the communication performed in response to the occurrence of the event; identifying, from the specification information, first specification information corresponding to the communication performed at a relative time point separated from a start point set at an occurrence time point of the event; identifying, out of the history information, first history information corresponding to the communication performed at the relative time point; and outputting, to an output device, first correspondence information in which information indicating the communication corresponding to the first specification information and information on the communication corresponding to the first history information are associated with each other.

A method of displaying a communication state, the method comprising: obtaining, from a storage device, specification information and history information, the specification information being information indicating a specification of a communication performed in response to an occurrence of an event, the history information being information indicating a history of the communication performed in response to the occurrence of the event; identifying, from the specification information, first specification information corresponding to the communication performed at a relative time point separated from a start point set at an occurrence time point of the event; identifying, out of the history information, first history information corresponding to the communication performed at the relative time point; and outputting, to an output device, first correspondence information in which information indicating the communication corresponding to the first specification information and information on the communication corresponding to the first history information are associated with each other.

A method for loss reduction in a communication interface having differential power loss as a function of a transmitted bit. A data format of transmitted data and/or a data format of address data that characterize the addresses of communication subscribers is selected as a function of the expected number of bits having higher power loss and/or the expected number of bits having lower power loss in the data, in such a way that the number of bits having lower power loss is increased.

A method for loss reduction in a communication interface having differential power loss as a function of a transmitted bit. A data format of transmitted data and/or a data format of address data that characterize the addresses of communication subscribers is selected as a function of the expected number of bits having higher power loss and/or the expected number of bits having lower power loss in the data, in such a way that the number of bits having lower power loss is increased.

A method and control unit for configuring an add-on interface of a vehicle are presented. The vehicle comprises at least one vehicle internal system, at least one add-on system, the add-on system being arranged in the vehicle after the vehicle is produced by a manufacturer, and at least one internal communication unit arranged for communication with at least one vehicle external communication unit. The method comprises: receiving, using the at least one internal communication unit, configuration information related to at least one sensor of the vehicle from the at least one vehicle external communication unit; and configuring, based on the configuration information, how at least one sensor signal S.sub.sensor from the at least one sensor is to be processed by an add-on interface, the add-on interface being arranged in the vehicle as an interface between the at least one vehicle internal system and the at least one add-on system.