Cryptography – Communication system using cryptography – Wireless communication
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-29
2005-11-29
Caldwell, Andrew (Department: 2134)
Cryptography
Communication system using cryptography
Wireless communication
Reexamination Certificate
active
06970565
ABSTRACT:
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of securely downloading and installing a patch program in a processing device. Each processing device is assigned a unique key embedded therein during manufacture and has knowledge of a shared key. The program patch is encrypted using the shared key and transmitted over a communication link, such as a satellite radio link, to each device. The patch is decrypted using the shared key and re-encrypted using the unique key known only to the device itself. The re-encrypted patch program is stored in nonvolatile memory and upon reset of the device, the encrypted patch contents are read out of the nonvolatile memory, decrypted using the unique key and loaded into patch memory for execution by the processing device.
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Caldwell Andrew
Lipman Jacob
XM Satellite Radio Inc.
Zaretsky Howard
Zaretsky & Associates
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