UpdateLogic® provides all of the necessary tools, infrastructure, and services needed to package, release, distribute, and broadcast firmware updates to Digital Television (DTV) devices.

The UpdateTV Tools and documentation within the UpdateTV Software Development Kit help explain how to package the updated firmware image in a manner that is compatible with the UpdateTV Network. UpdateLogic engineers verify that the image will distribute correctly and not interfere with other DTV devices.

Once that image has been validated, UpdateLogic will securely distribute the new image to all UpdateTV servers and broadcast it on the nationwide UpdateTV Network. UpdateLogic constantly monitors the broadcast and server connections to verify that the firmware image was datacast properly. There are several key components to the UpdateTV technology.

UpdateTV Network
The UpdateTV Network is the core infrastructure behind UpdateLogic’s software- update delivery system. In addition to Internet-connected servers delivering updates, UpdateLogic has begun to implement a proprietary nationwide digital datacasting network and entered into agreements with leading cable TV partners. The multi-network architecture complies with ATSC and SCTE datacasting standards and has a flexible scheduling model to satisfy both urgent and routine broadcasts. The UpdateTV Network can deliver complete or partial updates and maximize the effectiveness of broadcast and network bandwidth for all distributions.

UpdateTV includes all necessary services and infrastructure required to test, package, schedule, and reliably deliver firmware updates to DTV devices, set-top boxes, and other customer-premise digital equipment in the United States (and, soon, all of North America). Within its testing labs, UpdateLogic validates network compatibility to ensure that broadcasts reach their destinations successfully.

The UpdateTV Servers receive packaged updates using a secure, encrypted channel over the Internet. The UpdateTV Servers format this data and insert it into the terrestrial and cable broadcast streams.  Additionally, the UpdateLogic network operations center makes the update directly available to Internet-connected television devices. The updates are then transmitted along with the video and audio signals to the DTV set, set-top box, PVR, digital converter, or other device.

UpdateTV Servers also monitor transmissions and capture "receipts" for customer validation and auditing purposes.

UpdateLogic centrally manages the entire network for data distribution to reach all of the UpdateTV Servers, and therefore, sends data to all enabled consumer electronics devices deployed nationwide.

UpdateTV Agent
The UpdateTV Agent is a small, standards-based agent that integrates with the firmware stack of the DTV device. It detects and extracts the software update from the broadcast stream or Internet connection and also provides error detection, decryption, and authentication. Conforming to industry specifications, each family of digital television devices is uniquely identified by UpdateTV Agent and, as a result, UpdateLogic can distribute updates to many different devices using the same network.

The UpdateTV Agent, provided as source code, is part of the UpdateTV Software Development Kit (SDK) that also includes documentation, tools, network configuration files, and sample transport streams.

UpdateTV Software Development Kit (SDK)
The UpdateTV Software Development Kit helps expedite firmware development and validate that your implementation of the UpdateTV Agent is compatible with the UpdateTV Network. The SDK consists of many components, such as StreamGenerator, StreamViewer, and StreamManager that enable you to encapsulate, authenticate, secure, and package the image in a manner compatible with ATSC and CableLabs specifications as well as the UpdateTV Network.

The Software Development Kit includes platform-independent sample source code, documentation, and all tools for developing and testing the Agent. These samples can be used for reference or can be directly integrated into the firmware stack of the DTV device.