Patent 7930692 was granted and assigned to Intel on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for obtaining information includes retrieving in a network device a listing of available information update packages and automatically updating the network device based on the listing. Transferring information update packages can include determining whether a network device is using a computer network connection and transferring portions of the package to the network device only while the network device is not using the network connection.