Control system and method for operating a transceiver

• US 8,073,439 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2004
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Stromberg, Guido, Sturm, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sabouri, Mazda
• Application Number:
  US10/920,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20050085193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,667 Days
• Field of Search: 455/73, 455/420
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0423 Input/output
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23277 Use of separate interface software, main program calls functions from it
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23297 Remote load of program with cellular, wireless, satellite connection
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23312 Load program from attached device to control that device
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25014 Fieldbus general name of bus connected to machines, detectors, actuators
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25186 Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25274 Communication processor, link interface
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2613 Household appliance in general

Abstract

Transceiver for controlling an application device by means of an external control device. The transceiver has a control unit, a memory unit coupled to the control unit, a control interface coupled to the control unit, a communication interface coupled to the control unit, wherein the application device is controllable using the external control device via the control interface and via the communication interface using the control unit, and an application control program stored in the memory unit, wherein the application control program is communicated to the external control device via the communication interface.

Claims

1. A control system for an application device comprising a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is arranged to control the application device by means of an external control device, and the transceiver comprises:

a control unit;

a memory unit coupled to the control unit and having an application control program stored therein, wherein the application control program comprises code that enables a platform-independent integration into the system of the external control device;

a control interface coupled to the control unit, and a communication interface coupled to the control unit, wherein the application control program is communicated to the external control device via the communication interface, wherein the transceiver stores but does not execute the application control program,

wherein the application device is controllable using the external control device via the control interface and via the communication interface using the control unit,

wherein the communication between the application control program in the external control device and the control unit in the transceiver is effected in application-specific fashion, and

wherein the external control device communicates with the transceiver, has a memory device configured to store at least one application control program, and has a processor configured to execute the at least one application control program to thereby control the application device coupled to the transceiver, and

an interrogation unit located in the external control device and being configured to determine whether the at least one application control program stored in the memory unit is already contained in the memory device,

wherein if the interrogation unit determines that the at least one application control program stored in the memory unit is already contained in the memory device, the at least one application control program of the external control device is not communicated.

2. The control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external control device is a workstation, a personal computer, a laptop, a webpad, a mobile radio telephone, a Palm™

, or a personal digital assistant.

3. The control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external control device comprises a storage duration management device that prescribes, for the at least one application control program stored in the memory device, a time value specifying the time after which the at least one application control program is erased from the memory device.

4. The control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the time value is prescribed by the storage duration management device based on at least one of the following criteria:

how often the application control program has been executed in the past;

when the application control program was executed last;

a memory requirement of the respective application control program; and

what type of application the application control program relates to.