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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2008
Yuu Nagata, Kobe, JP;
Yuu Nagata, Kobe, JP;
Fujitsu Ten Limited, Kobe-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A multimedia system includes a master unit terminal and slave unit terminals. The master unit terminal functions as an interface for communications with an external server, in which status a program updating process is executed between the server and the slave unit terminal. In the multimedia system, property information on the slave unit terminal is acquired when the master unit terminal is connected to the slave unit terminal on a communication-enabled basis, an update program for the slave unit terminal is acquired from the server via the master unit terminal on the basis of the property information, and thereafter the updating process is executed. This scheme in the multimedia system enables troublesomeness felt by a user to be reduced to the greatest possible degree and security for updating the program of the unit terminal to be guaranteed.