Method for transmitting and processing command and data

• US 7,571,374 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2004
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Hwang, Byung-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Lamarre; Guy J
• Application Number:
  US10/984,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20050105518A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,730 Days
• Field of Search: 714/776, 714/748, 714/749
• US Class Current: 714/776
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1829 Arrangements specially adapted for the receiver end

Abstract

Disclosed is a method in which a computer and a personal digital assistant easily and stably transmit commands and data through a serial interface and process them. To this end, the method for transmitting a command comprises: generating a command packet including a command frame, a length frame, a command data frame, an error check fame and an end character frame; and transmitting the command packet.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a command packet from a mobile terminal comprising:

determining that a command packet is to be transmitted to a terminal;

generating a command packet comprising a command frame, a length frame, an error check frame, and a command data frame

encoding the command packet;

generating an end character frame at the end of the encoded command packet, wherein the error check frame is used to check whether an error is generated in the command packet and the end character frame is the final frame in the generated command packet for indicating an end of the command packet;

transmitting the encoded command packet with the end character frame to the terminal;

receiving an encoded data packet from the terminal in response to the command packet; and

performing a function in response to receiving the encoded data packet from the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the error check frame is a CRC (Cyclic-Redundancy Check) frame.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining that a command packet is to be delivered to the terminal further comprises the mobile terminal receiving a request to backup or upgrade information stored in memory.

4. A method for processing a command comprising:

receiving via a serial interface a command packet comprising a command frame, a length frame, a common data frame, an error check frame, and an end character frame;

erasing the end character frame of the received command packet;

decoding the command packet where the end character frame has been erased; and

erasing the error check frame of the decoded command packet, wherein the error check frame of the decoded command packet is processed to determine whether an error is generated at the decoded command packet, and erasing the error check frame if an error is not generated in the decoded command packet;

transmitting a data packet in response to the command packet if an error was not generated in the decoded command packet, wherein the data packet may backup or upgrade information stored in memory of the mobile terminal.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein erasing the end character frame comprises:

erasing the end character frame if the last byte of the command packet transmitted via the serial interface is the end character frame.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

requesting retransmission of the command packet if the last byte of the command packet is not the end character frame.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

requesting retransmission of the command packet if an error is generated in the decoded command packet.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

requesting a retransmission of the command packet through Non-Acknowledgement (NAK) if an error is generated in the decoded command packet.

9. A method for processing a command, in which a command packet received via a serial interface is processed, the method comprising:

receiving via the serial interface a command packet including a command frame, a length frame, a command data frame, a CRC (Cyclic-Redundancy Check) frame and an end character frame;

erasing the end character frame if the last byte of the command packet received through the serial interface is the end character frame;

requesting retransmission of the command packet if the last byte of the command packet is not the end character frame;

decoding the command packet where the end character frame has been erased;

erasing the CRC frame if an error is not generated in the decoded command packet after checking the CRC frame of the decoded command packet; and

requesting retransmission of the command packet if an error is generated in the decoded command packet after checking the CRC frame of the decoded command packet;

transmitting a data packet in response to the command packet if an error was not generated in the decoded command packet, wherein the data packet may backup or upgrade information stored in flash memory of the mobile terminal.