| 摘要 |
A carrier, such as a battery, that queries a memory of a charger or charging circuit, or the memory of equipment or discharging circuit powered by the battery, to determine the relative date or version of data, operating parameters and/or software on both the battery and the equipment, and either provides updated data, operating parameters and/or software to the equipment, or retrieves later dated data, operating parameters and/or software from the equipment to update the memory of the battery and/or further distribute the updated data, operating parameters and/or software to other batteries or equipment. |
| 主权项 |
1. A data carrier, such as a battery, for use as a carrier of data to be used for virally updating data, operating parameters and/or software residing in memories associated with a plurality of data carriers and equipment configured to receive the data carriers, comprising:
a battery memory having stored therein a first set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands, the first set of data, operating parameters and/or software commands associated with a first date or version; a communication interface for communicating with a processor and memory of equipment configured to receive the data carrier, the equipment memory having stored therein a second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands, the second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands associated with a second date or version; and a battery processor in operable communication with the battery memory and the communication interface, the battery processor configured;
to query the equipment processor to retrieve the second date or version of the second set of data, operating, and/or software commands stored in the equipment memory, andto compare the second date or version of the second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands stored in the equipment memory to the first date or version of the first set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands stored in the battery memory, andto upload the first set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands stored in the battery memory to the equipment memory if the first date or version is later than the second date or version; andwherein the equipment processor is configured to download the second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands to the battery memory to update the battery memory if the second date or version of the second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands is later than the first date or version of the first set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands stored in the battery memory to replace the first set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands stored in the battery memory with the second set of data, operating parameters, and/or software commands uploaded from the equipment memory. |
