Hardware management and reconstruction using visual graphics

• US 10,078,970 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2016
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, An Ding, McNamara, Timothy G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Loc
• Application Number:
  US15/384,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20170092149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/17 Mechanical parametric or variational design
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/20 Finite element generation, e.g. wire-frame surface description, tesselation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/04 involving 3D image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2004 Aligning objects, relative positioning of parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2016 Rotation, translation, scaling
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/003 Repetitive work cycles; Sequence of movements
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

In an approach for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, a processor populates a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model. A processor receives the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components. A processor couples the machine model with a set of vital product data. A processor associates a set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and the vital product data file. A processor generates a visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model.

Claims

1. A computer program product for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, the computer program product comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to populate, by one or more processors, a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model;

program instructions to receive, by the one or more processors, the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components;

program instructions to couple, by the one or more processors, the machine model with a set of vital product data wherein the set of vital product data is a file associated with a specific machine;

program instructions to indicate, by the one or more processors, an alert within the vital product data when a machine registers an error, wherein the machine is represented by the machine model and a component associated with the error is highlighted in a specific color;

program instructions to detect, by the one or more processors, a change to the set of vital product data;

responsive to detecting the change to the set of vital product data, program instructions to update, by the one or more processors, the quantity of machine components used to construct the machine model;

program instructions to associate, by the one or more processors, a set of instructions and an alternate set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and a file associated with the set of vital product data;

program instructions to store, by the one or more processors, the set of vital product data in the file and updating the file when the set of vital product data is modified;

program instructions to generate, by the one or more processors, a three-dimensional visual representation and an alternate three-dimensional visual representation of the repair procedure, specific to the machine model, based on a set of animation sequences wherein one or more animation sequences are associated with one or more steps of the repair procedure;

program instructions to augment, by one or more processors, the three-dimensional visual representation of the repair procedure to allow a user to change graphical perspective based on the user removing components from the three-dimensional representation obstructing relevant components and wherein the user instructs the three-dimensional visual representation to zoom in/out to give a better view of the relevant components; and

program instructions to present, by one or more processors, a three-dimensional visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model wherein the user instructs the three-dimensional visual representation to stop, rewind and fast forward.