Patent ID: 7844964

Claim:
A server for mass distribution of firmware and software updates to a plurality of mobile devices, the server comprising a processor and computer readable storage, the server further comprising: a management protocol component stored on the computer readable storage and executable by the processor for device discovery by a first protocol, the server employing the management protocol component to set or replace, as necessary, a listening parameter in at least one of the plurality of mobile devices; a broadcast protocol component stored on the computer readable storage and executable by the processor for communicating a package and associated metadata via a broadcast mechanism to the plurality of devices, wherein the package and associated metadata are communicated via a mass distribution over the broadcast mechanism from where each of the plurality of devices may receive the package from a single communication; wherein the associated metadata is such that each of the plurality of devices can accept or reject the package available to each of the plurality of devices via the broadcast mechanism based on the associated metadata; and wherein the listening parameter enables the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices to determine if the package broadcast by the server is to be stored or consumed.