Inventors:
Carl L. Christensen - South Jordan UT, US
Charles L. Johnson - Taylorsville UT, US
Lynn Howard Arbuckle - Bountiful UT, US
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt
International Classification:
G06F 15/16, G06F 9/00, G06F 12/14, G06F 3/00, G06F 13/00, G08B 29/00, H04L 29/06
US Classification:
726 34, 726 10, 713 1, 713153, 713165, 713189, 710 8, 710 15, 710104
Abstract:
A broadcast router includes plural input cards, first and second router matrix card and plural output cards. Programmable devices residing on the cards requiring configuration issue a request for configuration to a main controller which resides, with a shared configuration information repository on a configuration control card. After a period of time which allows additional programmable devices to request configuration elapses, the main controller polls the programmable devices residing on the cards to determine which of the programmable devices had requested configuration and, using the configuration information maintained in the shared configuration information repository, configures each programmable device which had requested configuration.