VIRAL DISTRIBUTION OF BATTERY MANAGEMENT PARAMETERS

• US 20120274266A1
• Filed: 04/27/2012
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Circulation Incorporated (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Circulation Incorporated (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Yip, Sean
• Granted Patent: US 9,337,668 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17331 Distributed shared memory [DSM], e.g. remote direct memory access [RDMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00045 Authentication, i.e. circuits for checking compatibility between one component, e.g. a battery or a battery charger, and another component, e.g. a power source
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00302 Overcharge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00304 Overcurrent protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00308 Overvoltage protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00309 Overheat or overtemperature protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A carrier, such as a battery, that queries a memory of a charger or charging circuit, or the memory of equipment or discharging circuit powered by the battery, to determine the relative date or version of data, operating parameters and/or software on both the battery and the equipment, and either provides updated data, operating parameters and/or software to the equipment, or retrieves later dated data, operating parameters and/or software from the equipment to update the memory of the battery and/or further distribute the updated data, operating parameters and/or software to other batteries or equipment.

Claims

1. A carrier for distributing information stored in an electronic format, comprising:

a battery configured to be removably inserted into a battery receiver in operable communication with a charging or discharging circuit, the battery including a processor and a memory in operable communication with the processor, the processor being configured using software commands to query a processor and/or memory associated with the charging or discharging circuit to determine if data and/or operating parameters and/or software stored in the memory associated with the charging or discharging circuit has an earlier date or version number than the data, operating parameters and/or software commands stored in the memory of the battery, and if so, transfer the data, operating parameters and/or software commands from the memory of the battery to the memory and/or processor associated with the charging and/or discharging circuit, the processor of the battery also configured to transfer the data, operating parameters and/or software commands from the memory associated with the charging or discharging circuit to the memory of the battery if the data, operating parameters and/or software commands associated with the charging and/or discharging circuit have a later date than the data, operating parameters and/or software commands stored in the memory of the battery.

2. A data carrier, such as a battery, comprising:

a processor configured to query a memory of a charger, a memory of a charging circuit, a memory of equipment powered by the battery or a memory of a discharging circuit powered by the battery, to determine the relative date or version of data, operating parameters and/or software stored in a memory operatively connected to the battery and a second memory operatively connected to the equipment, the processor programmed to either upload updated data, operating parameters and/or software to the memory of the equipment, or to download later dated data, operating parameters and/or software from the memory of the equipment to update the memory of the battery and/or further distribute the updated data, operating parameters and/or software to other batteries or equipment.

3. The data carrier of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to only download later dated data, operating parameters and/or software from the memory of the charger or the memory of the charging circuit to update the memory of the battery.

4. The data carrier of claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to only upload updated data, operating parameters and/or software to the memory of the equipment, discharging circuit, charger or charging circuit.