Patent ID: 8407359

Claim:
A method for downloading data from a server into a plurality of portable communicating objects through a radiocommunications network, the downloading of data comprising the steps of: pre-processing data for each of a plurality of individual messages, in the server during a pre-processing phase in which the server is not in communication with the radiocommunications network, said data being pre-processed into a plurality of individual data messages destined for respective designated communicating objects; subsequent to the pre-processing of the data for all of the plurality of individual messages during the pre-processing phase, transmitting the plurality of individual data messages during a communication phase, from the server to the respective designated portable communicating objects; receiving, during the communication phase, by the server, acknowledgments transmitted by the respective communicating objects; and subsequent to the transmission of all of the plurality of individual messages and receipt of acknowledgements during the communication phase, post-processing data, in the server during a post-processing phase, said the post-processing of data being dependent upon the acknowledgments received from respective designated communicating objects, wherein said server is not in communication with said radiocommunications network during said post-processing phase.