US 11,989,756 B2
Smoking substitute device
Daniel Fard, Liverpool (GB); and Oliver Talbot, Liverpool (GB)
Assigned to Imperial Tobacco Limited, Bristol (GB)
Filed by Imperial Tobacco Limited
Filed on Aug. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/002,185.
Application 17/002,185 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/053508, filed on Feb. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1803032 (GB), filed on Feb. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045454 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01); A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/30 (2013.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01) [A24F 40/53 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A61B 5/0022 (2013.01); G06F 11/1433 (2013.01); G06F 21/305 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
5. A smoking substitute device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions which cause the processor to:
log one or more error(s) encountered by the smoking substitute device, the logged one or more errors includes an indication of the number of times that the smoking substitute device failed to connect to the mobile device within a given period;
transmit the one or more errors to a second device;
receive from the second device an updated firmware for use by the processor of the smoking substitute device, where the updated firmware is selected based on a timeout period for connection as set in the smoking substitute device being too short; and
update firmware of the smoking substitute device with the updated firmware received from the second device, the updated firmware configured to address the failure to connect.