Memory programming method and system
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorPeter Nangle
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Abstract
A device, that includes nonvolatile memory, a peripheral antenna, and a peripheral radio frequency (RF) receiver, is configured to receive a peripheral RF signal containing programming and to write the programming to the nonvolatile memory. Examples of such a device include, a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a desktop personal computer. The programming received by the device can be used to update a boot-up algorithm or an application stored in the nonvolatile memory of the device. In one embodiment, a system programs a plurality of devices via a plurality of peripheral RF signals particular to each device. A computer system has stored a plurality of RF data module arrays to generate the plurality of peripheral RF signals.
Claims10
A method, comprising:
- determining individual characteristics of a plurality of computing devices;
- transmitting a plurality of peripheral radio frequency (RF) signals based on the individual characteristics of each of the plurality of computing devices, wherein each peripheral RF signal contains proprietary original equipment manufacturer (“OEM”) code particular to each of the plurality of computing devices;
- receiving the plurality of peripheral RF signals by the plurality of computing devices, wherein each computing device comprising:
- a peripheral antenna to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of peripheral RF signals;
- a peripheral RF receiver coupled to the peripheral antenna;
- a nonvolatile memory coupled to the peripheral RF receiver in which a first programming is stored, the first programming to enable each computing device to turn on and to receive the proprietary OEM code particular to each computing device;
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- a central processing unit (“CPU”) to execute the first programming and to execute the received proprietary OEM code;
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- writing the proprietary OEM code particular to each computing device received via the peripheral antenna of each computing device into the nonvolatile memory of each computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.