Display device with cable card and updating method thereof

• US 20070022179A1
• Filed: 07/10/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Dong-Won, Choi, Byoung-Gun
• Application Number:
  US11/482,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022179A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/14 Arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/25 Arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/91 Mobile communication networks for accessing the Internet H04H60/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4181 for conditional access
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42623 involving specific decryption arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43853 involving multiplex stream decryption arrangements using cryptography for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/23
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4623 Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services H04H60/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/818 OS software

Abstract

A display device having a cable card is provided wherein the cable card stores firmware, an interface that receives homing information from a service provider, an update part that updates the cable card firmware according to the homing information, a storage part that stores node information about at least one corresponding node, a message generator that generates a message indicating an update of the firmware of the cable card, and a communication part that transmits the message to the at least one corresponding node. The corresponding node information may be a phone number and the communication part can access a short messenger service center to transmit an SMS text message to the corresponding node. Accordingly, a user can be easily aware of the firmware update.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a cable card that stores firmware;

an interface that receives homing information from a service provider,

an update part that updates the cable card firmware according to the homing information;

a storage part that stores correspondent node information about at least one corresponding node; and

a message generator that generates a message indicating an update of the cable card firmware; and

a communication part that transmits the message to the at least one correspondent node.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the correspondent node information comprises a telephone number.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the communication part accesses a short message service center (SMSC) and provides the SMSC with the telephone number and the message, and the SMSC transmits the message to a node corresponding to the telephone number.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising an on screen display (OSD) processor that receives the telephone number and stores the telephone number to the storage part.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the SMSC transmits the message to a node corresponding to the telephone number in the form of an SMS text message.

6. A method for updating a display device cable card, the method comprising:

receiving homing information from a service provider,

updating cable card firmware according to the homing information;

generating a message indicative of the updating of the firmware; and

transmitting the message to a corresponding node.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the transmission of the message comprises:

reading a telephone number from memory,

accessing a short message service center (SMSC); and

providing the SMSC with the telephone number and the message;

wherein the SMSC transmits an SMS text message to a node corresponding to the telephone number.

8. A computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for updating a display device cable card, comprising:

a first set of instructions for receiving honing information from a service provider,

a second set of instructions for updating cable card firmware according to the homing information;

a third set of instructions for generating a message indicating firmware update; and

a fourth set of instructions for transmitting the message to a corresponding node.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the message transmission comprises:

a fifth set of instructions for reading a telephone number from memory,

a sixth set of instructions for accessing a short message service center (SMSC); and

a seventh set of instructions for providing the SMSC with the telephone number and the message;

wherein the SMSC transmits an SMS text message to a node corresponding to the telephone number.