METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER SOFTWARE Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC H04N5/44 H04H60/13 G06F9/445 

FIELD: physics, computer technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to the sphere of digital television immediately dealing with systems providing for update of digital television receiver software. The proposed method of digital television receiver software update envisages the following: service software multiplexing into a traffic flow under a protocol pre-defined; retrieval of the service software data from the traffic flow by the digital television receiver and data storage; resetting the digital television receiver to enable receipt of the opposite side interface function addresses by the software of the digital television receiver and the service software; updating (via the software of the digital television receiver and the service software and in accordance with the addresses to have been retrieved) the default function addresses of the service software interface and the digital television receiver software.

EFFECT: independent update of service software whenever required without the digital television service provider having to particularly update terminal software.

10 cl, 4 dwg