Dynamically provisioning a device

• US 8,805,454 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2013
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sampat, Kuntal D., Gupta, Samir K., Choy, Eddie L. T., Linsky, Joel
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US13/903,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20130260737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 441 Days
• Field of Search: 455/569.1
• US Class Current: 455/569.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A wireless communication device comprises a first wireless interface configured to communicate with a device over a first wireless network, and a second wireless interface configured to communicate with a remote server over a second wireless network, the remote server storing one or more executables. The wireless communication device includes a configured to receive device configuration information from the device over the first wireless network, the device configuration information identifying at least processing hardware resources in the device. The controller is configured to select an executable based on the device configuration information, the executable for configuring the device to process data in a particular format and determine whether the selected executable is stored within the wireless communication device, and if not, to retrieve the selected executable from the remote server by way of the second wireless network, and download the selected executable to the device over the first wireless network.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a first wireless interface configured to communicate with a device over a first wireless network;

a second wireless interface configured to communicate with a remote server over a second wireless network, the remote server storing one or more executables;

a controller configured to;

receive device configuration information from the device over the first wireless network,

select an executable based on the device configuration information, the executable for configuring the device to process data in a particular format,

determine whether the selected executable is stored within the wireless communication device, and if not, to retrieve the selected executable from the remote server by way of the second wireless network, and

download the selected executable to the device over the first wireless network.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein the configuration information further includes:

a configuration indicator configured to indicate one or more processing capabilities of the device.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 1, wherein the device stores a default codec for decoding data, where in the data is encoded audio.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 3, wherein the executable is downloaded to a volatile memory included in the device and the default codec is stored in a non-volatile memory included in the device.

5. An apparatus, comprising:

a wireless communication device including a first wireless interface for communicating with a second device over a first wireless network and a second wireless interface for communicating with a remote server over a second wireless network, the remote server storing one or more executables, the wireless communication device configured to;

retrieve second device configuration information from second device over the first wireless network,

select an executable based on the second device configuration information, the executable for configuring the second device to act on data in a particular format,

determine whether the selected executable is stored within the wireless communication device, and if not, to retrieve the selected executable from the remote server by way of the second wireless network, and

download the selected executable to the second device over the first wireless network.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the second device is configured to receive the executable over the first wireless network.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the second device is a wireless headset.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the wireless communication device includes:

circuitry configured to identify a hardware configuration of the headset; and

circuitry configured to select the executable based on the hardware configuration.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first wireless network is a Bluetooth network.

10. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the wireless communication device is a cellular phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA).

11. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the wireless communication device employs a Bluetooth Generic Object Exchange Profile for downloading the executable.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

means for communicating with a remote server over a first wireless network, the remote server storing one or more executables;

means for communicating with a second device over a second wireless network,

means for retrieving the second device configuration information from the second device over the second wireless network;

means for selecting an executable based on the second device configuration information, the executable for configuring the second device to process data in a particular format;

means for determining whether the selected executable is stored locally, and if not, retrieving the selected executable from the remote server by way of the first wireless network; and

means for downloading the selected executable to the second device over the second wireless network.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

means for storing the executable at the remote server; and

means for retrieving the executable from the storing means and providing the retrieved executable to the downloading means.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the apparatus is a cellular phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA).

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the downloading means employs a Bluetooth Generic Object Exchange Profile for downloading the executable.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the downloading means is included, at least in part, in the second device.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the second device is a headset.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising:

means for identifying a hardware configuration of the headset; and

means for selecting the executable based on the hardware configuration.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second wireless network is a Bluetooth network.

20. A method of provisioning a wireless device comprising:

determining whether the wireless device can decode encoded data in a particular format;

if the wireless device can not decode the encoded data in the particular format, determining whether an executable corresponding to the particular format can be downloaded to the wireless device;

if the executable can be downloaded to the wireless device, downloading the executable to the wireless device over a wireless link, the executable configuring the wireless device to decode the encoded data in the particular format; and

if the executable can not be downloaded to the wireless device, transcoding, at a source device, the data from the particular format into a second particular format that can be decoded by the wireless device, and streaming the transcoded data from the source device to the wireless device over the wireless link without downloading the executable to the wireless device.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the wireless link is a Bluetooth link.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein downloading includes:

downloading the executable using a Bluetooth Generic Object Exchange Profile.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein downloading includes downloading the executable from a cellular phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA) to the wireless device.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

identifying a hardware configuration of the wireless device; and

selecting the executable based on the hardware configuration.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

transferring the hardware configuration from the wireless device to a wireless communication device.

26. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a set of instructions executable by one or more processors, comprising:

code for;

determining whether the wireless device can decode data in a particular format,

if the wireless device can not decode the data in the particular format, determining whether an executable corresponding to the particular format can be downloaded to the wireless device,

if the executable can be downloaded to the wireless device, downloading the executable to the wireless device over a wireless link, the executable configuring the wireless device to decode the data in the particular format, and

if the executable can not be downloaded to the wireless device, transcoding, at a wireless source, the audio from the particular format into a second particular format that can be decoded by the wireless device, and streaming the transcoded audio from the source device to the wireless device over the wireless link without downloading the executable to the wireless device.

27. The computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the wireless link is a Bluetooth link.

28. The computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein the downloading code includes code for downloading the executable from a cellular phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA) to the wireless device.

29. The computer-readable medium of claim 26, wherein downloading code includes:

code for downloading the executable using a Bluetooth Generic Object Exchange Profile.

30. The computer-readable medium of claim 26, further comprising:

code for identifying a hardware configuration of the wireless device, and

code for selecting the executable based on the hardware configuration.

31. The computer-readable medium of claim 30, further comprising:

code for transferring the hardware configuration from the wireless communication device.