System and method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time

• US 10,049,509 B1
• Filed: 07/19/2017
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chao-Yuan Lai, Chifu Liu, Hungli Tan
• Original Assignee: Chao-Yuan Lai, Chifu Liu, Hungli Tan
• Inventors: Liu, Chifu, Lai, Chao-Yuan, Tan, Hungli
• Primary Examiner(s): Bee, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US15/653,939
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0772 Means for error signaling, e.g. using interrupts, exception flags, dedicated error registers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0784 Routing of error reports, e.g. with a specific transmission path or data flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/00 Registering or indicating the condition or the working of machines or other apparatus, other than vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/003 replying the identity and the state of the sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time. The system comprises at least one server in signal communication with at least one external apparatus in a wired or wireless way. While an abnormality of an external apparatus occurs, the external apparatus transmits a set of abnormality information to the server. After an information receiving interface of the server receives the set of abnormality information transmitted by the external apparatus, an information processing module vocally broadcasts the set of abnormality information. An information transmitting module transmits the set of abnormality information to the client device of at least one assigned related person. While an external apparatus suffers abnormality, the system can inform the related persons in real time to repair the external apparatus instantly.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time, comprising

at least one server in signal communication with at least one external apparatus in a wired or wireless way, wherein while an abnormality of said external apparatus occurs, said external apparatus transmits a set of abnormality information to said server, and wherein said server further comprises

an information receiving interface receiving said set of abnormality information transmitted by said external apparatus;

an information processing module in signal communication with said information receiving interface, processing said set of abnormality information, and vocally broadcasting said set of abnormality information in real time; and

an information transmitting module in signal communication with said information processing module and said information receiving interface, transmitting said set of abnormality information to a client device of at least one of assigned related persons.

2. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said information receiving interface, said information processing module, and said information transmitting module are jointly disposed in said server.

3. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said set of abnormality information transmitted by said information transmitting module is presented through a instant messaging software installed in said client device, and said related persons discuss a status of repairing said external apparatus through said instant messaging software of said client devices.

4. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said information transmitting module transmits said set of abnormality information to said client device and presents said set of abnormality information on said client device in a push notification way.

5. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 4, wherein said client devices of said related persons are arranged into at least one group, and said information transmitting module transmits said set of abnormal information to said client devices of said group.

6. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said client devices of said related persons are arranged into at least one group, and said information transmitting module transmits said set of abnormal information to said client devices of said group.

7. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said information processing module is connected with a database and stores said set of abnormality information in said database.

8. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 7, wherein said database is connected with a vocal module, and wherein said vocal module retrieves said set of abnormality information from said database and converts said set of abnormality information into voices for broadcasting.

9. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 8, wherein said vocal module includes a multilingual function able to broadcast said set of abnormality information multilingually.

10. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 7, wherein said information transmitting module includes an automatic search module generating a plurality of reports for different said external apparatuses according to time points at which abnormalities of said external apparatuses occur, including statistic reports, instant reports, daily reports, weekly reports and monthly reports of said abnormalities of said external apparatuses.

11. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said set of abnormality information includes a plurality of pieces of information, and wherein said information transmitting module marks at least one of said pieces of information with a notation, and wherein an automatic search module is installed in said information transmitting module, and wherein said automatic search module finds out said pieces of information, which are marked with said notations, from said set of abnormality information to establish said reports and transmits said reports to said client devices.

12. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1 further comprising a monitoring module connected with said external apparatus and transmitting said set of abnormality information to said information receiving interface.

13. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 12, wherein said external apparatus is an industrial production machine or an information device.

14. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said external apparatus is an industrial production machine or an information device.

15. The system for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 1, wherein said client device is an intelligent phone, an intelligent watch, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, or a notebook computer.

16. A method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time, comprising steps:

transmitting at least one set of abnormality information to a server while an abnormality of at least one external apparatus occurs;

an information receiving interface of said server receiving said set of abnormality information; and

an information processing module, which is connected with said information receiving interface, vocally broadcasting said set of abnormality information in real time, and an information transmitting module, which is connected with said information receiving interface, transmitting said set of abnormality information simultaneously with said broadcasting to at least one client device of at least one assigned related person and presenting said set of abnormality information on said client devices in a push notification way.

17. The method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 16, wherein said set of abnormality information transmitted by said information transmitting module is presented through a instant messaging software installed in said client device.

18. The method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 17, wherein said related persons discuss a status of repairing said external apparatus through said instant messaging software of said client devices.

19. The method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 16, wherein said information processing module stores said set of abnormality information in a database.

20. The method for transmitting apparatus-related information in real time according to claim 19, wherein said information transmitting module includes an automatic search module searching said database for information of different said external apparatuses and generating a plurality of reports about abnormality information according to time points at which abnormalities of said external apparatuses occur, including statistic reports, instant reports, daily reports, weekly reports and monthly reports of said abnormalities of said external apparatuses.