Monitoring a status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure

• US 10,171,944 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Evelyn R., Brooks Powell, Natalie N., Conley, Kristen N., Keen, Martin G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Danh C
• Application Number:
  US15/840,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20180302748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 384 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561, 455418, 4555501, 455 412, 381 58
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6008 in the transmitter circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A computer program product and a computer system for monitoring an operation status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure. The mobile device has connectivity to the infrastructure while the disconnected device has no connectivity to the infrastructure. The mobile device invokes passive listening of the mobile device to a sound generated by the disconnected device, determines whether the sound can be detected by the mobile device, and steams audio with information of a location of the mobile device to the audio analysis system. The audio analysis system determines whether the audio is recorded from the disconnected device, compares the audio with pre-recorded sounds of the disconnected device, determines the operation status of the disconnected device, and sends to the mobile device a notification of the operation status of the disconnected device.

Claims

1. A computer program product for monitoring an operation status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure, wherein the mobile device has connectivity to the infrastructure and the disconnected device has no connectivity to the infrastructure, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable to:

invoke, by the mobile device, passive listening of the mobile device to a sound generated by the disconnected device, in response to determining that the mobile device is in proximity to a predefined location of the disconnected device;

determine, by the mobile device, whether the sound can be detected by the mobile device;

stream, by the mobile device, audio with information of a location of the mobile device to the audio analysis system, in response to determining that the sound can be detected by the mobile device, wherein the audio is recorded during the passive listening;

determine, by the audio analysis system, whether the audio is recorded from the disconnected device, based on the information of the location of the mobile device;

compare, by the audio analysis system, the audio with pre-recorded sounds of the disconnected device, in response to determining that the audio is recorded from the disconnected device;

determine, by the audio analysis system, the operation status of the disconnected device, based on a comparison of the audio and the pre-recorded sounds; and

send to the mobile device, by the audio analysis system, a notification of the operation status of the disconnected device, in response to determining that the operation status is an event predetermined by a user of the mobile device.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising the program code executable to:

receive from the user, by the mobile device, a selection of the disconnected device in a list of disconnected devices;

determine, by the mobile device, the location of the mobile device; and

determine, by the mobile device, whether the mobile device is in proximity to the predefined location of the disconnected device.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the mobile device uses a location service on the mobile device to determine the location of the mobile device.

4. The computer program product of claim 2, further comprising the program code executable to:

update, by the audio analysis system, the operation status of the disconnected device in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the pre-recorded sounds is stored in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising the program code executable to:

pair, by the audio analysis system, the location of the mobile device and the predefined location of the disconnected device, wherein information of the predefined location of the disconnected device is stored in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.

7. A computer system for monitoring an operation status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure, wherein the mobile device has connectivity to the infrastructure and the disconnected device has no connectivity to the infrastructure, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions executable to;

invoke, by the mobile device, passive listening of the mobile device to a sound generated by the disconnected device, in response to determining that the mobile device is in proximity to a predefined location of the disconnected device;

determine, by the mobile device, whether the sound can be detected by the mobile device;

stream, by the mobile device, audio with information of a location of the mobile device to the audio analysis system, in response to determining that the sound can be detected by the mobile device, wherein the audio is recorded during the passive listening;

determine, by the audio analysis system, whether the audio is recorded from the disconnected device, based on the information of the location of the mobile device;

compare, by the audio analysis system, the audio with pre-recorded sounds of the disconnected device, in response to determining that the audio is recorded from the disconnected device;

determine, by the audio analysis system, the operation status of the disconnected device, based on a comparison of the audio and the pre-recorded sounds; and

send to the mobile device, by the audio analysis system, a notification of the operation status of the disconnected device, in response to determining that the operation status is an event predetermined by a user of the mobile device.

8. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising the program instructions executable to:

receive from the user, by the mobile device, a selection of the disconnected device in a list of disconnected devices;

determine, by the mobile device, the location of the mobile device; and

determine, by the mobile device, whether the mobile device is in proximity to the predefined location of the disconnected device.

9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the mobile device uses a location service on the mobile device to determine the location of the mobile device.

10. The computer system of claim 8, further comprising the program instructions executable to:

update, by the audio analysis system, the operation status of the disconnected device in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.

11. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the pre-recorded sounds is stored in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.

12. The computer system of claim 7, further comprising the program instructions executable to:

pair, by the audio analysis system, the location of the mobile device and the predefined location of the disconnected device, wherein information of the predefined location of the disconnected device is stored in a knowledge database in the infrastructure.