Terminal Apparatus Firmware Transmission Sequence

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques for transmitting firmware files from a terminal apparatus to a function executing apparatus often result in information being cleared, requiring users to manually select and order files, which is time-consuming and effort-intensive.

Innovation Solution

A method where a terminal apparatus transmits a firmware file first, followed by other files like setting files, ensuring information integrity and eliminating the need for user selection or ordering during transmission.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If firmware file is transmitted after setting files, then firmware update can be performed, but information in setting files may be cleared

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation integrityVSAvoiduser effort

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal apparatus transmits setting files before the firmware file to the function executing apparatus. This preliminary action ensures that the setting files are already in place and their information is preserved when the firmware file is subsequently transmitted, preventing information clearance while maintaining operational simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent inverts the conventional transmission sequence by transmitting setting files before the firmware file, rather than the other way around. This inversion resolves the contradiction by ensuring setting information is established first, preventing its clearance during firmware update, while the automated sequence eliminates user effort requirements

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Reliability

If user manually selects and orders files for transmission, then appropriate files can be transmitted, but considerable time and effort are required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefile transmission accuracyVSAvoidtransmission time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal apparatus automatically determines which files to transmit and in what order, without requiring user intervention. The system self-services the file selection and ordering process, transmitting setting files before firmware files automatically, thereby ensuring transmission accuracy while eliminating the time and effort users would otherwise spend on manual selection and ordering

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10599372B2Medium storing program executable by terminal apparatus, data transmitting method and terminal apparatus

Publication Date: 2020.03.24 BROTHER KOGYO KK

AI summary

There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programs executable by a processor of a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus is configured to transmit files to be executed by external apparatuses to the external apparatuses. The programs, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal apparatus to: transmit a first file, which is a firmware, to a predetermined external apparatus included in the external apparatuses; and in a case that a second file is to be transmitted to the predetermined external apparatus, transmit the second file to the predetermined external apparatus after transmittance of the first file to the predetermined external apparatus has been completed, the second file being different from the first file and indicating information which is usable at a time of execution of a function of the predetermined external apparatus.