Patent ID: 11928454
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determination of the time slot for updating the firmware specific to each equipment comprises:
calculating, for each equipment and for each time slot of a plurality of potential time slots, a value of a parameter representative of a use of the equipment in the time slot in question according to the connection data generated by the equipment,
selecting, for each equipment, the time slot corresponding to the lowest use of the equipment, the set of the selected time slots forming a schedule for updating all of the equipments,
determining, at each time of a plurality of times of the schedule, an index of potential demand for the download server at the time, the index being dependent on the respective values of selected time slots comprising the time, and
upon a determination that the index is higher than a predetermined threshold at a given time of the schedule, replacing one of the time slots comprising the time with another time slot, the other time slot being selected according to the value of the parameter representative of a use of the equipment in question in the other time slot.