ANTENNA LINE DEVICE CONFIGURATION SYSTEM

• US 20110105099A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Triasx Pty., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Triasx Pty., Ltd.
• Inventors: Roll, Ashley James
• Application Number:
  US12/935,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A communications device comprising firmware, storing instructions for controlling a processor to operate communications hardware according to a configuration; memory storage containing static data and at least one set of dynamic data defining the configuration, the dynamic data being dynamically upgradeable to change the configuration of the communications device substantially in real time.

Claims

1. A communications device comprising:

firmware storing instructions for controlling a processor to operate communications hardware according to a configuration;

memory storage containing static data and at least one set of dynamic data defining the configuration, the dynamic data being dynamically upgradeable to change the configuration of the communications device substantially in real time.

2. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data is upgraded dynamic data or newly created dynamic data.

3. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the static data and dynamic data are stored in non-volatile memory.

4. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the communications device is an Antenna Line Device.

5. The communications device of claim 4 wherein the Antenna Line Device is defined by the Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG)/3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard.

6. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the instructions stored in the firmware are suitably configured to cause the communications device to:

receive upgraded dynamic data via a communication interface;

write the upgraded dynamic data to an inactive area of the memory storage; and

select the upgraded dynamic data as active dynamic data.

7. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data sets any one of failure modes, a communications channel or hardware to bypass the communications device.

8. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data sets alarm thresholds.

9. The communications device of claim 1 wherein a communications protocol is used to transmit the dynamic data is an AISG/3GPP protocol.

10. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data configures the hardware to initialise in stages.

11. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data contains a header.

12. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data defines a subset of a configuration.

13. The communications device of claim 1 wherein the dynamic data defines a version of the communications protocol to be used.

14. A method for configuring a communications device comprising firmware storing instructions for controlling a processor to operate communications hardware and memory storage containing static data and at least one set of dynamic data defining a configuration;

the method including steps of;

creating dynamic data at a host computer; and

transmitting the dynamic data from the host computer to the communications device via a communications interface substantially in real time.

16. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the dynamic data is upgraded dynamic data or newly created dynamic data.

17. The method of claim 14 or 15 the static data and dynamic data are stored in non-volatile memory.

18. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the communications device is defined by the AISG/3GPP standard.

19. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the instructions stored in the firmware are suitably configured to cause the communications device to:

receive upgraded dynamic data via a communication interface;

write the upgraded dynamic data to an inactive area of the memory storage; and

select the upgraded dynamic data as active dynamic data.

20. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the dynamic data sets any one of failure modes, a communications channel or hardware to bypass the communications device.

21. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the dynamic data sets alarm thresholds.

22. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein a communications protocol used to transmit the dynamic data is an AISG/3GPP protocol.

23. The method of claim 14 or 15 wherein the dynamic data configures the hardware to initialise in stages.

24. The method of claims 14 or 15 wherein the dynamic data defines a version of the communications protocol to be used.

15. A method of configuring a communication device of the type comprising firmware storing instructions for controlling a processor to operate communications hardware to a configuration and memory storage containing static data and at least one set of dynamic data defining the configuration;

the method including the steps of;

receiving dynamic data via a communication interface;

writing the dynamic data to an inactive area of the memory storage in the communication device; and

selecting the dynamic data as active data.