System and method for automatic device update with limited network connectivity
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDavid Tompkins, Naga Ramesh Chalapalli, Sundararajan Chellappan, Ataur Khan
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically updating a device that has intermittent network connectivity are described in this disclosure. The method includes receiving, at an electronic device from a server, a notification containing information about a promotion for at least one product, determining, based on the received notification, a change in the promotion for the at least one product, updating an action associated with the promotion based on the determined change in the promotion, and executing the updated action associated with the promotion without a network connection to the server.
Claims24
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at an electronic device from a server, a notification containing information about a promotion for at least one product;
- determining, based on the received notification, a change in the promotion for the at least one product;
- updating an action associated with the promotion based on the determined change in the promotion;
- and
- executing the updated action associated with the promotion without a network connection to the server.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with a server via a network connection;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- control the communication interface to receive, at the electronic device from the server, a notification containing information about a promotion for at least one product;
- determine, based on the received notification, a change in the promotion for the at least one product;
- update an action associated with the promotion based on the determined change in the promotion;
- and
- execute the updated action associated with the promotion without a network connection to the server.
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program comprising computer readable program code that when executed causes at least one processing device to:
- control a communication interface of an electronic device to receive, at the electronic device from a server, a notification containing information about a promotion for at least one product;
- determine, based on the received notification, a change in the promotion for the at least one product;
- update an action associated with the promotion based on the determined change in the promotion;
- and
- execute the updated action associated with the promotion without a network connection to the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.