Energy conscious mobile device redundancy and recovery

• US 10,545,828 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2017
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Krishnamurthy, Rajaram B., Rogers, Daniel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amoroso, Anthony J
• Application Number:
  US15/840,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20180101443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/142 Reconfiguring to eliminate the error group management mechanisms in a peer-to-peer network H04L67/1044
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/85 Active fault masking without idle spares
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A tool for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device. Responsive to the mobile device unsuccessfully powering up the tool activates a recovery functionality via a physical reset switch on the mobile device. Responsive to activating the recovery functionality, the tool scavenges for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device, wherein scavenging includes siphoning charge from a battery, a processor complex, or a wiring harness within a main module of the mobile device to accumulate sufficient energy to restore and power the one or more features available on the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device, the method comprising:

responsive to the mobile device unsuccessfully powering up, activating, by one or more computer processors, a recovery functionality via a physical reset switch on the mobile device; and

responsive to activating the recovery functionality, scavenging, by one or more computer processors, for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device, wherein scavenging includes siphoning charge from a battery, a processor complex, or a wiring harness within a main module of the mobile device to accumulate sufficient energy to restore and power the one or more features available on the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

diagnosing, by one or more computer processors, a software functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the software functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) techniques; and

diagnosing, by one or more computer processors, an electrical functionality for the mobile device, wherein diagnosing the electrical functionality includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

searching, by one or more computer processors, for one or more malfunctions in one or more devices via a hardwired shadow plane, wherein searching includes utilizing one or more energy conscious RAS techniques.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

determining, by one or more computer processors, the device functionality for the mobile device from the list of usable components, wherein the device functionality is an energy conscious recovery plan including one or more features available on the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein scavenging for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

determining, by one or more computer processors, an energy draw for the device functionality, wherein the energy draw is a predictive value of how much energy is required to restore the at least one feature available in the device functionality.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

creating, by one or more computer processors, a list of usable components of the mobile device based, at least in part, on a diagnosis of software functionality, a diagnosis of electrical functionality, and a probing of resources available on the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the device functionality for the mobile device, further comprises:

determining, by one or more computer processors, one or more features to include in the device functionality based, at least in part, on one or more energy conscious techniques, the one or more features including one or more of;

an emergency phone call;

a global positioning system; and

a beacon broadcast.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein creating a list of usable components of the mobile device, further comprises:

inventorying, by one or more computer processors, one or more usable components, wherein inventorying the one or more usable components includes excluding one or more components experiencing a malfunction.