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US 6,754,894 B1Granted
Wireless software and configuration parameter modification for mobile electronic devices
AssigneeCommand Audio Corporation
InventorsEdward J. Costello, Albert W. Wegener, Serge Swerdlow, Jonathan Voichick, Thomas M. Linden
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Abstract
Multiple copies of a software or operating parameter change are broadcast using a wireless signal to a mobile electronic device. Broadcasting multiple copies increases the probability that the device will receive the change without error.
Claims64
A method of transmitting information, comprising the acts of:
- inserting multiple copies of software information into a signal, wherein the software information is used to operate a mobile electronic device receiving the software information;
- inserting feature program information into the signal, wherein the feature program information received by the mobile electronic device is subsequently output by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device;
- inserting a program identifier into the signal, wherein the program identifier enables the mobile electronic device to distinguish the software information from the feature program information;
- and
- broadcasting the signal as a wireless signal to a plurality of mobile electronic devices in an information distribution system, wherein the number N of multiple copies is an integer and N ≥ 1 + [LeftBracketingBar] log P log ( 1 - R ) [RightBracketingBar]
- where P is a predetermined minimum acceptable fraction of mobile electronic devices correctly receiving the software information and R is a reception error rate.
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A wireless broadcast signal comprising:
- multiple copies of software information, wherein the software information is used to operate a mobile electronic device receiving the software information;
- feature program information, wherein the feature program information received by the mobile electronic device is subsequently output by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device;
- and
- a program identifier, wherein the program identifier enables the mobile electronic device to distinguish the software information from the feature program information,
- wherein the number N of multiple copies is an integer and N ≥ 1 + [LeftBracketingBar] log P log ( 1 - R ) [RightBracketingBar]
- where P is a predetermined acceptable fraction of mobile electronic devices correctly receiving the software information and R is a reception error rate.
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A transmitter in an information distribution system, wherein the transmitter broadcasts a wireless signal to a plurality of mobile electronic devices, and wherein the signal comprises:
- multiple copies of software information, wherein the software information is used to operate a mobile electronic device receiving the software information;
- feature program information, wherein the feature program information received by the mobile electronic device is subsequently output by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device;
- and
- a program identifier, wherein the program identifier enables the mobile electronic device to distinguish the software information from the feature program information, wherein the number N of multiple copies is an integer and N ≥ 1 + [LeftBracketingBar] log P log ( 1 - R ) [RightBracketingBar]
- where P is a predetermined minimum acceptable fraction of the mobile electronic devices correctly receiving the software information and R is a reception error rate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.