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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
Carl L. Christensen, South Jordan, UT (US);
Charles L. Johnson, Taylorsville, UT (US);
Lynn Howard Arbuckle, Bountiful, UT (US);
Carl L. Christensen, South Jordan, UT (US);
Charles L. Johnson, Taylorsville, UT (US);
Lynn Howard Arbuckle, Bountiful, UT (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A broadcast router includes plural input cards, first and second router matrix card and plural output cards. Programmable devices residing on the cards requiring configuration issue a request for configuration to a main controller which resides, with a shared configuration information repository on a configuration control card. After a period of time which allows additional programmable devices to request configuration elapses, the main controller polls the programmable devices residing on the cards to determine which of the programmable devices had requested configuration and, using the configuration information maintained in the shared configuration information repository, configures each programmable device which had requested configuration.