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Generator based on multiple instruction streams and minimum size instruction set for generating updates to mobile handset

  • US 7,747,994 B1
  • Filed: 06/04/2004
  • Issued: 06/29/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system that facilitates the updating of firmware in an electronic device, using updating information, received through a network, the system comprising:

  • at least one electronic device comprising at least one of firmware and software;

    a generator that generates updating information for the at least one of firmware and software, wherein the generator represents integer values using a variably-sized group of bits to enhance compression of the generated updating information, wherein the variably-sized group of bits has a default size having a plurality of default illegal represented integer values that are otherwise never encountered, and wherein the default size is extended when the value of the variably-sized group of bits of the default size is one of the default illegal represented integer values; and

    wherein the electronic device is capable of employing the updating information that is generated by the generator, and whereina size of the extension depends on the default illegal represented integer value of the plurality of default illegal represented integer values.

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