Apparatus comprising a storage device for storing performance data and method of updating this storage device

• US 20020004386A1
• Filed: 03/26/2001
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Simon, Jean-Michel
• Application Number:
  US09/817,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20020004386A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

The operation of the apparatus (1) depends on data contained in a storage device (85). It often appears to be necessary to update these data. For this purpose, data are tapped contained in another storage device of another apparatus (50), preferably of the same type. Application to portable cellular telephony apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus of a certain type comprising a storage device for storing performance data, characterized in that it comprises updating means for updating its storage device from another apparatus of the same type.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said updating means are formed by a serial wire link.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said updating means are formed by an infrared link.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said updating means are formed by a radio link of the type “

Blue Tooth”

.

5. A method of updating the operation software of an apparatus as claimed in one of the claims 1 to 4 by means of update data, characterized in that said update data are tapped from another apparatus of the same type.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the updating is effected in the following steps:

preparation of a first apparatus for producing the update data,

preparation of a second apparatus for receiving the update,

data transfer from the first apparatus to the second apparatus,

writing update data in the storage device of the second apparatus.

7. A system comprising at least two apparatus of the same type as claimed in one of the claims 1 to 4, comprising means for exchanging update data, characterized in that at least a first apparatus comprises means for communicating its update data and in that at least the second apparatus comprises means updated with update data from the first apparatus.