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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Koster, Eindhoven, NL;
Frank Bosveld, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ; H04N 7/10 ; H04H 1/02 ; H04H 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ; H04N 7/10 ; H04H 1/02 ; H04H 1/00 ;
Abstract
When new software is received by air in the form of successive blocks by a video receiver having a specialized digital video processing module (,), connected by a first bus (,) to a specialized video memory (,), and a microprocessor (,) connected by a second bus (,) to a rewritable program memory (,), the microprocessor verifies the blocks of this new software one by one and stores them in the video memory (,) of the specialized video processing module until the new software is complete. Not until that moment will the new software be transferred to the program memory (,).