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Embedded device with software registry

  • US 20070079279A1
  • Filed: 06/21/2004
  • Published: 04/05/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A control device for electrical or electronic equipment, the device having processing means and non-volatile memory means, the non-volatile memory means having installed programs executable by the processing means directly from the non-volatile memory means, each program being made up of processing elements at least one of which can be modified or upgraded by the Installation of a patch, wherein:

  • a part of the memory means is used as a patch registry containing a list of patch descriptor elements, and the processing means is arranged to install a new patch by modifying the program processing element to which It relates and storing a catch descriptor element for the patch in the patch registry, each atch descriptor element containing a list of modified code descriptor elements identifying the processing element to which the catch has been applied.

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