Remote programming of serialized semiconductor devices using web or internet protocols

• US 6,941,178 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2003
• Issued: 09/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitel Knowledge Corporation (Mitel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Watson, David, Zhu, Francis Hong Fang
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, RAMESH B
• Application Number:
  US10/368,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20040034439A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• Field of Search: 700/17, 700/18, 700/23, 700/83, 700/86, 700/87, 700/88, 700/89, 700/56, 700/65, 700/66, 701/3, 701/4, 701/5, 717/100, 717/102, 717/114, 709/217, 709/219, 709/230
• US Class Current: 700/65
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A method and system for remote programming of serialized semiconductor devices using web or Internet protocols. Semiconductor device programmers access at least one web server for unique numbers to program the serialized semiconductor devices.

Claims

1. A system for remote programming of semiconductor devices, comprising a semiconductor device programmer for programming the semiconductor devices;

a server in communication with the semiconductor device programmer over a network to provide serialized numbers to the semiconductor device programmer for programming into the semiconductor devices;

a computer controller for facilitating communications between the semiconductor device programmer and the server and for controlling the semiconductor device programmer to program the semiconductor devices with the serialized numbers; and

a semiconductor logic interface for interfacing the computer controller with the semiconductor device programmer.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the serialized numbers are unique numbers.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the unique numbers are generated according to an algorithm.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the unique numbers as provided to the semiconductor device programmer are non-sequential.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is accessed using Internet protocols.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the server is accessed using TCP/IP calls and the server responds back with files of the serialized numbers.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the server is accessed using HTTP “

Get”

or “

Post”

requests and the server responds back with the files comprising one of HTML web pages, web page files, and XML document files.

8. A method of remote programming of semiconductor devices, comprising the steps of

accessing a server using Internet protocols over a network for serialized numbers;

receiving a file of the serialized numbers; and

programming the semiconductor devices with the serialized numbers.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the serialized numbers are unique numbers.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the unique numbers are generated according to an algorithm.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the unique numbers are non-sequential.

12. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the server is accessed using TCP/IP calls and the server responds back with files of the serialized numbers.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the server is accessed using HTTP “

Get”

or “

Post”

requests and the server responds back with the files comprising one of HTML web pages, web page files, and XML document files.

14. A system for remote programming of semiconductor devices, comprising a semiconductor device programmer for programming the semiconductor devices;

and

a plurality of servers in communication with the semiconductor device programmer over a network to provide serialized numbers to the semiconductor device programmer for programming into the semiconductor devices.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the serialized numbers are unique numbers.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the unique numbers are generated according to an algorithm.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the unique numbers as provided to the semiconductor device programmer are non-sequential.

18. The system of claims 14 or 15, further comprising a computer controller for facilitating communications between the semiconductor device programmer and the servers and for controlling the semiconductor device programmer to program the semiconductor devices with the serialized numbers;

and a control logic interface for interfacing the computer controller with the semiconductor device programmer.

19. The system of claims 14 or 15, wherein the servers are accessed using Internet protocols.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the servers are accessed using TCP/IP calls and the servers respond back with files of the serialized numbers.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the servers are accessed using HTTP “

Get”

or “

Post”

requests and the servers respond back with the files comprising one of HTML web pages, web page files, and XML document files.

22. A method of remote programming of semiconductor devices, comprising the steps of

accessing at least one of a plurality of servers using Internet protocols over a network for serialized numbers;

receiving a file of the serialized numbers; and

programming the semiconductor devices with the serialized numbers.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the serialized numbers are unique numbers.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the unique numbers are generated according to an algorithm.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the unique numbers are non-sequential.

26. The method of claim 22 or 23, wherein the servers are accessed using TCP/IP calls and the server responds back with files of the serialized numbers.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the servers are accessed using HTTP “

Get”

or “

Post”

requests and the servers respond back with the files comprising one of HTML web pages, web page files, and XML document files.