Patent ID: 7103583

Claim:
A method for input of new service data into a service device, said new service data being available at a data center located remotely from said service device, comprising the steps of: providing a memory for service data in a service device and forming in said service device, a status report of memory location occupancy by existing service data in said memory comprising a designation of available bytes in said memory; establishing a communication between said service device and said data center and transmitting said status report from said service device to said data center; based on said status report and the new service data available at said data center, forming recommendations in said data center for a future memory location occupancy in said service device, each recommendation designating a different memory location to be occupied by said new service data; communicating a message from said data center to said service device containing said recommendations; upon receipt of said message at said service device, checking said recommendations in said service device for feasibility as to memory location occupancy in said memory; and loading said new service data available at said data center into said memory of said service device at a memory location according to one of said recommendations that has been checked to be feasible.