Mobile station and method for selectively downloading components of a software by comparing component specific version numbers

摘要

A mobile station for wirelessly receiving software files from a software upgrade server. The mobile station comprises: 1) a memory (260) for storing the received software files in a plurality of download modules (263), each download module (DLM) comprising a plurality of related components that perform a particular function; and 2) a DLM controller (270) for determining a version identifier associated with each component in each download modules. The controller compares a first group of version identifiers associated with a first plurality of related components in a first download module with corresponding version identifiers associated with the first plurality of related component that are contained in a list of latest component versions. <IMAGE>