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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1999
Aaron Hal Dinwiddie, Cicero, IN (US);
Kevin Eugene Nortrup, Fairland, IN (US);
Derek Liu, Carmel, IN (US);
Yefim Vayl, Carmel, IN (US);
Aaron Hal Dinwiddie, Cicero, IN (US);
Kevin Eugene Nortrup, Fairland, IN (US);
Derek Liu, Carmel, IN (US);
Yefim Vayl, Carmel, IN (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing computer code updates through an integrated circuit card (smart card) interface. The smart card interface within a computer control device determines whether the card that is inserted into the smart card interface is either a memory card or a conventional smart card. Once the smart card interface has detected that the memory card has been inserted, the interface requests data from the card. The interface provides the computer code to the memory of the computer controlled device to update the computer code therein.