LOCAL INTERCONNECT NETWORK (LIN) MESSAGING BETWEEN LIN PARTITIONS SEPARATED BY A BACKBONE COMMUNICATION NETWORK

A proxy slave in a first LIN partition receives data from a proxy master in the second LIN partition which in turn receives the data from a slave in the second LIN partition. The proxy slave stores the data in a data structure and receives a read request from an originating master in the first LIN partition after the data is stored. The read request comprises a LIN message identifier subscribed to by the slave in the second LIN partition. The proxy slave accesses the data stored in the data structure based on the LIN message identifier in the read request; and sends a LIN response to the originating master with the stored data from the slave in the second LIN partition.