Appeal 2006-2621
Application 09/993,320
communication device model and downloads it to the communication
device. (Specification 3). According to Appellants (Specification 9), the
firmware selection and downloading by a management device eliminates the
“time consuming and error prone matching of the appropriate firmware to
the communications device by an administrator.”
Ha discloses a method and apparatus for upgrading the basic input-
output system (BIOS) software of a personal computer by downloading the
appropriate upgrade BIOS software from a host computer. After a
determination is made that a request for an upgrade has been made by a
personal computer, the personal computer model ID is sent to the host
computer (col. 4, ll. 45-53). The appropriate software for the particular
personal computer model is read from the storage device of the host
computer and transferred to the requesting personal computer (col. 4, ll. 54-
61).
Itoh discloses (col. 18, ll. 36-42) the upgrading of BIOS software in
which software version information is included in the model identification.
Ishibashi discloses (col. 6, ll. 17-35) the storage of device ID information
on non-volatile machine usable storage media in the form of a BIOS-ROM.
Treu discloses (col. 6, ll. 51-55) a communication device in the form of a
personal computer which includes ID information which uniquely identifies
the communication device.
Comer discloses (page 156) the advantages to the user of using
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology in communication
devices permitting a user to send and receive digital information at high
speed.
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