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US 2008/0301671 A1Published application
Method of upgrading program of portable device and portable device having program upgrade function
AssigneeKtf Technologies, Inc.
InventorJeong-Ho Kim
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Abstract
Provided are a method, and a portable device having a program upgrade function. A method of upgrading a program of a portable device upgrades a program, such as a navigation program or firmware of the portable device, using another portable device within a predetermined range. Program upgrade can be performed between portable devices in movement, that is, it is possible to upgrade a program of a portable device regardless of a place in which the portable devices are located.
Claims21
A portable device having a program upgrade function, comprising:
- a wireless communicator configured to perform a wireless communication with a plurality of portable devices within a predetermined range;
- and
- a controller configured to control the wireless communicator to detect the portable devices within the predetermined range, and configured to check a program version information, which is received through the wireless communicator, of at least one of the portable devices within the predetermined range to upgrade a program.
A method of upgrading a first program of a first portable device, comprising:
- detecting second portable devices within a first range from the first portable device;
- receiving a first program version information from at least one of the detected second portable devices;
- checking the received program version information;
- requesting the at least one of the second portable devices that transmits the program version information to transmit a second program corresponding to the received program version information when a version of the received program version information represents that the first program of the first portable device is able to be upgraded;
- receiving the second program corresponding to the received program version information from the at least one of the second portable devices;
- and
- upgrading the first program of the first portable device based on the received second program.
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