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

Claim 0:
1. A method of remotely managing a set of at least one equipment for connection to a network in order to update a firmware of each equipment, the method comprising:
generating, at a level of each equipment, data regarding the connection of the equipment to the network over a predetermined period of time,
determining, at a level of a remote management server, a time slot, specific to each equipment, for updating the firmware, the time slot specific to an equipment being dependent at least on the data regarding the connection of the equipment,
transmitting, to each equipment, information relating to the time slot specific to the equipment,
transmitting, to each equipment, information relating to an address of a download server for the purpose of updating the firmware within the equipment,
sending, from each equipment, a request to download the firmware update to the download server associated with the received address,
sending, from the download server, firmware update download data to each equipment sending a download request, and
downloading, to each equipment receiving the download data, the firmware update in the time slot specific to the equipment.