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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. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 ;
Abstract
The present invention is to make it possible to easily download a program obtained from outside to a connected equipment. A first storage unit ( ) storing a first program inputted from an outside, a second storage unit ( ) storing a second program prepared in advance and actuated by the first program and a processing unit ( ) executing programs stored in the respective storage units, acquiring information on the connected equipment based on the execution of the second program stored in the second storage unit and controlling the connected equipment based on the information thus acquired are provided.