Patent ID: 11949939
Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system to store back-up data internally within the system itself, the system comprising:
a repair facility;
a wireless query antenna located at the repair facility;
a diagnostic processor coupled to the wireless query antenna;
a plurality of set top box assemblies positioned at a test location in the repair facility in which each set top box assembly includes:
a housing;
a system control computer processor within the housing;
an audio/video processor within the housing, the audio/video processor being coupled to the system control computer processor and outputting audio/video data to a display to be viewed by a user;
a first memory within the housing, the first memory being within the system control computer processor and the first memory being configured to receive from the system control computer processor and to store within the first memory system specific data for the system control computer processor, wherein the system specific data include at least user data, user preferences, and previously displayed audio/video data by the audio/video processor within the housing, and operational features of the system control computer processor;
a second memory positioned within the housing, the second memory being electrically connected to the first memory and the system control computer processor with a direct electrical wire connection, the second memory being configured to store within it the system specific data for the system control computer processor that it receives from the system control computer processor and the first memory, the second memory being a non-volatile memory configured to retain the stored data when no power is being provided to the second memory;
a transfer circuit coupled to the second memory, the transfer circuit being within the housing;
a power and data transfer antenna within the housing, coupled to the transfer circuit, the antenna being configured to receive power from a wireless power supply signal from outside the housing and to send data from the second memory to a location outside the housing via the transfer circuit with the second memory positioned within the housing at a time when no power is being provided to the system control computer processor within the housing;
a power supply line from the power and data transfer antenna configured to provide power from the power and data transfer antenna to the transfer circuit and the second memory when power is provided wirelessly to the power and data transfer antenna; and
a data transfer line from the transfer circuit to the power and data transfer antenna, the data transfer line configured to transfer the stored system specific data from the second memory to the power and data transfer antenna for transmission to a location outside of the housing;
wherein the diagnostic processor is configured to cause the wireless query antenna to output a wireless power supply query signal from the query antenna in the repair facility to the plurality of set top box assemblies positioned at the test location in the repair facility, the wireless power supply query signal being sent to all of the plurality of the set top boxes at test location within a same time frame;
wherein the power and data transfer antenna inside the housings of each of set top box at the repair location receives the query signal output by the query antenna and transfer electrical power from the power and data transfer antenna to the non-volatile memory and transfer the system specific settings from the non-volatile memory to the power and data transfer antenna from each respective housings after receiving electrical power from the power and data transfer antenna; and
transmitting the stored system specific settings from the non-volatile memory to the wireless query antenna in the repair facility that is outside of the housing via the power transfer antenna for each respective housings positioned at the test location.